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Help and Healing Series 

HAND BOOK 



OF 



Instructions for Healing and 
Helping Others 

Containing Scriptural, Psycho-Therapeutic, 
Psychological and Optimistic Principles, 
Simply Stated and Thoroughly Tested 



DR. C. F. WINBIGLER 

Author of "How to Heal and Help 
One's Self; or a New Outlook 
on Life;" "Suggestion: Its Law 
and Application;" "Christian 
Science: Its Facts and Fallacies;" 
"This Age and the Young People 
for It," etc., etc. 



1916 

Commercial Printing House 

Los Angeles, California 



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Copyright 1916 
By Charles F. Winbigler 



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AUG 21 1916 



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HOW TO USE THIS HANDBOOK 

Read the instructions carefully in the body of 
the work. Familiarize yourself with the Scrip- 
tures referred to in the whole book. Memorize 
many of the affirmations. Use some or any of 
them as a prayer. Study carefully and thought- 
fully the prayers and special instructions. Have 
confidence in yourself that you can be instru- 
mental in helping and healing those in need. 
The principles presented have been tried and 
proven effective. You may not help and heal all 
for efficiency comes from practice and realizing 
your oneness with the source of all Love, Wis- 
dom, Life and Power — which is God. A vital 
relationship with Him, consciously realized, will 
make you a great channel of power and help to 
others. Live a pure, noble, crystalline life and 
be filled with the Spirit and let Him work 
through you. 

"All these worketh the one and the same Spirit, 
dividing to each one severally even as he will." 
(John 1 :16.) "Of His fullness have all we re- 
ceived." "All things are possible to him that be- 
lieveth." 



LIST OF BOOKS THAT 

CAN BE USED WITH 

HANDBOOK 

Suggestion: Its Law and Ap- 
plication; or The Principle and 
Practice of Psycho-Therapeu- 



How to Help and Heal One's 
Self; or, A New Outlook on 
Life. 

Christian Science and Kindred 
Subjects; Their Facts and Fal- 
lacies. 

These can be secured from 
the Author. 



Healing and Help 



A Handbook of Instructions for Healing and 
Helping Others 

Many persons seem to think that the matter of 
healing is confined to a few individuals who have 
peculiar endowments and qualifications and that 
the matter of helpfulness ought to be the duty of 
those having time, means, and opportunity. It 
may be a surprise to learn that everybody may be 
able to heal if they know how and that all are 
under obligation to help those in need if oppor- 
tunity presents. "No one liveth unto himself," but 
each is responsible for the talent he has. 

Persons Differ 

That certain persons have a forceful and 
magnetic personality cannot be doubted and that 
some are philanthropically inclined none will 
dispute, but all have these qualities in greater 
or lesser degree and God requires us to exercise 
our ability and He holds us responsible for doing 
what we know and can know and what we are 
able to do. 



8 HEALING AND HELP 

Talents 

The man with five talents doubles the number 
and receives the commendation of his Lord; the 
man with two talents doubles the number and 
receives the same commendation, while the man 
with one talent hides his and receives condemna- 
tion. God does not require the man with one 
talent to increase it to five, nor the man with two 
talents to multiply them to ten, but He does 
require a man to use the talent he pos- 
sesses. God does not require anyone to do what 
he does not know or is not able to do, but He 
does require every man to do what he knows he 
ought to do and what he is able to do. 

Certain Principles 

There are certain principles that can be effect- 
ively used in recovering the worried, depressed, 
and the ailing from those conditions and there are 
certain things that can be done for those who 
need some personal help. This work and the 
Manual of the League of Healing and Helpful 
Service go together, and is intended as 
a handbook for Christian workers. There will be 
further instruction in my two larger books — 
"How to Help and Heal One's Self and Others; 
or, A New Outlook on Life," and in the advanced 
work that covers the philosophy and psychology 
of the great principle utilized in all healing, self- 
help, and self-development — "Suggestion : Its 



GOD THE SOURCE OF LIFE 9 

Law and Application ; or, The Principle and 
Practice of Psycho-Therapeutics." 

The Personal Life 

The noblest, purest, and most consecrated per- 
son, all other things being equal, will be the most 
efficient in helping and healing others of their 
troubles, ailments, and illnesses. There is a pecu- 
liar magnetism about goodness and purity, truth 
and honesty that may be felt but not described. 
He who possesses those characteristics and is 
loyal to the Christ and science will be most suc- 
cessful in bringing relief to his fellowmen. Many 
persons may do very remarkable things seemingly 
but permanent and effective work is done by 
those having faith in, and vital relation to, God. 

God the Source of Our Life 

Since God is the source of our life we must be 
open channels to let that wonderful life manifest 
itself through us to those who may come to us or 
to whom we may go to carry helping and healing 
power. Conscious communion with and relation 
to God is all essential to the personal workers in 
the League of Healing and Helpful Service. This 
condition of mind and life will establish spiritual 
harmony, unity, and oneness with the Infinite 
Spirit. Whatever else one may possess as to 
talent, magnetism, personality, and knowledge, all 
good in their place, the condition referred to and 



10 HEALING AND HELP 

emphasized is a prerequisite and the first require- 
ment in order to help permanently and make one 
efficient in his work. 

God Working in 
and Through Us 

This condition will make health, harmony, hap- 
piness, and heaven a positive and permanent real- 
ity to one's self and others. The failures of re- 
formers, individuals, and organizations, that have 
sought to relieve sufferings, transform society, 
and redeem mankind from sin, suffering, and sick- 
ness can be traced back to lack of conscious com- 
munion with and definite relation to God. No 
substitute can take His place. Ethical culture, 
theosophy, Christian Science, evolution and mul- 
titudes of other teachings and schemes have been 
tried and have failed and will fail to the end of 
time. The Holy Spirit must be embodied, Divine 
power must work through us, the human life 
must be transformed and man made fully and 
completely again in God's image and brought into 
complete oneness with Him. 

The Method 

The life of Christ illustrates how we become 
fully sons of God. The overshadowing of the 
Holy Spirit, a surrendered will, and a new birth 
are the preliminary steps, with a vision of one's 
mission. 



THE METHOD ILLUSTRATED 11 

The Three Temptations 

Further steps are illustrated by the tempta- 
tions of Christ and His victory over them. His 
first temptation was through the physical senses. 
It was the call of hunger and desire. Christ does 
not deny the senses, but their claim of supremacy, 
and He thus gains the victory. In His second 
temptation the appeal was to His psychic power 
for self-preservation. He discerns the subtlety 
of this temptation and refuses to employ super- 
natural powers for any such purpose. Whilst in 
the third temptation He, a spiritual being, is 
asked to worship Satan and is promised the whole 
world as a reward. He realized His spiritual 
union with the Father and refused to give such 
homage. He triumphed over self and Satan, re- 
alized His oneness with God, and returned from 
the field of battle victorious in power, wisdom, 
and love. "As He was in the world so are we" 
to be in our relation to, and supremely victorious 
through, our Heavenly Father. 

The Method Illustrated 

There is a story about a teacher and a boy, who 
was hereditarily bad. He would steal when there 
was no reason for it except the pleasure that he 
seemed to derive from it. The teacher taught him 
the Commandments and emphasized especially 
the one against stealing. He loved the boy, and 
the bov's weakness seemed to cause the teacher's 



12 HEALING AND HELP 

love to be increased, and this led the boy to love 
the teacher more and made him desire to do right. 
The boy promised that he would not steal. The 
habit was too strong, however, and he yielded. 
He was caught and put into jail. The teacher 
came and paid his fine and took the boy home. 
The boy was sorry for what he had done, asked 
forgiveness, and again promised not to steal. 
The teacher forgave him, but talked to him 
strongly because he realized that the boy had not 
the power to resist the temptation unless his mind 
was fortified with good suggestions. He said to 
the boy, "I am not tempted to steal. If you are 
willing I will take possession of your will and 
work through your mind and heart and help you 
with my mind and will. The only way that I 
can do this is for you to surrender yourself to me 
and obey my voice when you hear me speaking 
to you from within. If you do this the power of 
this temptation will be broken and the very desire 
to steal will pass away." 

The boy was interested, but mystified, and asked 
how the teacher could do this. He answered, 
"Never mind about the how. Will you trust me 
to do this and promise me to be faithful and quick 
in heeding the promptings of the inner voice?" 
The boy promised and. by mental suggestion the 
teacher transformed and awakened will power in 
the boy and the latter became peculiarly aware 
of a new force or will power acting within him. 



CHRIST IN US AND SUCCESS 13 

When he was tempted to steal he would hear a 
voice saying, "I am honest.. I will not take what 
is not mine. I am strong and I do not and will 
not have to yield to this temptation. The tempta- 
tion has no power over me. I will not steal. 
I am master and I will not do wrong." It was 
not long until another character was enwrought 
in the boy's personality — incarnated in himself. 
The boy's personality was corrected, changed, 
and transformed by the teacher's suggestions. 

Ourselves and Christ 

This is a parable of ourselves and Christ's deal- 
ing with us, changing us, dwelling in us, and ex- 
orcising that which is sinful and wrong. His 
love for us leads Him to deal thus with us and 
bring us under His dominion, power, and love in 
order that we may show these things in our life 
and character. Our redemption and transforma- 
tion are not affected by accepting a creed, doc- 
trine, ethical culture, or any such expedients, but 
by loving Him because He first loved us, being 
controlled by His will, embodying His personal- 
ity, incorporating His spirit. It is not the evolu- 
tion of the natural man but a transformation pro- 
duced by the incarnation of the Spirit which is 
the real and eternal life. 

Christ in Us and Success 

In Jesus on the human side of His life and in 



14 HEALING AND HELP 

Christ on the divine side we see what we are to 
be and do by obedience, submission, and trans- 
formation so that we shall be like Him in charac- 
ter, conduct, and conquest. There is no guess- 
work in being a true, sincere Christian and doing 
what the Lord and Master asks and requires. In 
Him we see what we should be, and will be, when 
God's plan is completed in our lives. Christ was 
a perfect example to all mankind, a true and per- 
fect type of humanity redeemed. Christ in us is 
the hope of glory and also the hope of those 
whom we can help and heal. God's love-life was 
manifested in and through Jesus Christ and it 
must be manifested through us if the world is to 
receive the benefit and blessing. Sacrifice is a 
manifestation of love and if we are to help and 
heal mankind we must sacrifice because we love. 
No success is possible in any field of genuine serv- 
ice without sacrifice and the measure of our love 
will be the measure of our sacrifice and that will 
measure our success in every respect. The char- 
acter and divinity revealed in Jesus, the Christ, 
are the character and divinity that are to be re- 
vealed in and manifested by every man when the 
incarnation — Christ in us — is effected by the Holy 
Spirit. This is done by the manifestation of the 
Infinite Spirit in regenerating power and indwell- 
ing energy, not by human devices, schemes, and 
designs. When this occurs then real spiritual 
power will be manifested in such a way that men 



SCIENCE NECESSARY 15 

will know that God dwells in us and we in Him, 
and then our every word, look, and act will help 
those in need and heal those that are sick. Christ 
in us then will be life, health, and power. 

Two Great Things in Life 

One needs self-control if he is to be helpful to 
others. If this is lacking- people will lose respect 
for the one who professes to help and heal. One's 
life must be righteous. These two characteristics 
will bring out unselfish love to God and man and 
will produce the soil from which will spring flow- 
ers of joy. fruit trees that will bear fruit to satisfy 
the hunger of many. Self-control and righteous- 
ness will overcome selfishness, conquer lust, de- 
stroy fear, banish worry, exorcise vanity, restrain 
sensitiveness, and master undesirable traits in 
one's own life and in others. 

Science Necessary 

Science is the handmaid of religion and is the 
safeguard against superstition and erratic think- 
ing and acting. So much passes for science today 
that is pure speculation and mystical vaporizing. 
Theories that do not stand the test of scientific 
scrutiny, sound reasoning, and common sense can 
be safely rejected and ought to be. He who re- 
fuses to observe the laws of physiology and hy- 
giene, the laws of right living and honest dealing 
with his fellowmen, no difference what else may 



16 HEALING AND HELP 

be mentally held, there will be physical ill health, 
mental strain and tension. He who neglects to 
bathe, eat good nourishing food, breathe good 
pure air, exercise judiciously, think good pure 
thoughts, and perform noble deeds will suffer 
sooner or later. We ought to learn all we can 
from science, observe its laws and utilize its prin- 
ciples so that we may get the best out of our 
lives in this environment and put the best into 
them. We have a body, the most wonderful piece 
of mechanism ever formed, a mind capable of 
the most wonderful development and manifesta- 
tion, and a spiritual nature which relates us to 
the Infinite and which is capable of the most 
remarkable unfoldment. This spiritual unfold- 
ment is subject to certain laws which men have 
discovered by experiment, observation, and rea- 
soning, and it is the sheerest kind of insanity to 
disregard them and call down punishment, dis- 
ease, and untimely death because of ignorance 
or non-observance. 

Other Characteristics 

He that would help and heal his fellowmen will 
become proficient in the measure of his consecra- 
tion to Christ and in using all reasonable helps in 
perfecting himself in knowledge and action. Let 
me illustrate what I mean by using all reasonable 
helps. Personal appearance has a tendency to 
impress a sick or nervous person favorably or 



SELF AND OTHER HEALING 17 

unfavorably. Carelessness in dress, uncleanliness 
of skin, habits that are offensive, and general de- 
meanor will all affect the sick one unfavorably. 
A harsh voice, a nervous manner, jerky move- 
ments, and impatience have a tendency to nullify 
anything that the one trying to help may say 
or do. 

A dignified demeanor, courteous treatment, a 
true Christian spirit are all essential characteris- 
tics for one who endeavors to help and heal those 
that are depressed and ailing. 

Certain Things That Ought to be Known 

Self and Other Healing 

1. There are two forms of mental work as 
related to health and its conditions; viz., self- 
healing and the action of one mind upon another. 
The former is the vis naturae medicatriz, the heal- 
ing power of nature, and tends to health and a 
normal condition unless interfered with. Wrong 
thinking is the first step in producing an abnormal 
condition of the body from which people suffer. 
Worry, fear, depression, and unhappiness need 
healing helpful thoughts and mental change, just 
as much as physical diseases need good nursing, 
hygienic measures, and new power. Probably 
more so, because those mental conditions may 
freojuently lead to physical diseases. Anyone can 
change his mental attitude toward adverse men- 
tal conditions if he knows how, and if he does not, 



18 HEALING AND HELP 

he can be helped by some one who does know. 
Self-knowledge and self-healing in the last anal- 
ysis are the forces that can change the wrong 
thinking and incite all the bodily functions to do 
their work normally. That assistance can be 
secured from another is not questioned but ad- 
mitted, but that help must be manifested through 
the mental power of the one who needs help. 

Faith 

2. Faith is a supreme condition by which help 
is received and manifested. Faith is the power 
that opens the way to health and recovery from 
weakness, sickness, and adverse mental condi- 
tions. Jesus healed and helped the people through 
their faith and He could not help them fully with- 
out it. In one place He failed to do mighty 
works because of the unbelief of the people. 
(Mark 6:5, 6.) Faith is made up of knowledge, 
assent and trust, and the person who has faith 
exercises these three characteristics. Faith is the 
same today that it has ever been as to these three 
conditions. 

Faith Unchanging 

P'aith is at the foundation of all cures whether 
mental, spiritual, or physical. Faith gives effi- 
cient power to the means employed whether med- 
icine, suggestion, or other mental processes are 
used. Thought without faith will accomplish 



WHAT FAITH DOES 19 

very little ; with faith it can work wonders and 
produce almost infinite results. If one is to be 
permanently helped and cured of sickness and 
have a change of mind in his thinking - , it will be 
secured through faith either in himself or in 
some one else, who will assist him in the trans- 
formation of his thought or in the substitution of 
forceful suggestions for those that are in his 
mind, which have produced the adverse and ab- 
normal conditions. 

What Faith Does 

Faith opens the door of the mind to receive the 
suggestions given and when received they have a 
tendency to stimulate all the bodily functions, 
awaken latent energies, increase mental and bod- 
ily activity, and bring into the mind a vivid pic- 
ture of one's relationship to God, the source of all 
life, power, and health. These effects result from 
the kind of suggestions made by the operator or 
by one's self. Faith is also a channel for receiving 
knowledge, divine power, and peace, and cor- 
responding effects in the mental and spiritual life. 

A Photograph Gallery 

Hebrews, the eleventh chapter, is a photograph 
gallery of the heroes of faith, what it is, what it 
does, and what it secures. No piece of literature 
in the world presents the subject of faith in all 
its phases in a more graphic and concrete form. 



20 HEALING AND HELP 

Great Effects of Faith 

Many of the great names of the Old Testa- 
ment, with a definite statement of work done and 
blessings received, are presented. Moses, Abra- 
ham, and multitudes of others are held up as a 
cloud of witnesses, who sympathize with and are 
interested in, the race we are running and the 
work we are doing. It is a fact of history and a 
truth of human effort that no great thing is ac- 
complished and no great blessing ever received 
without faith. Jesus Himself told the people that 
"according to thy faith be it unto thee." He em- 
phasized the necessity of faith for receiving heal- 
ing and help. He said, "Thy faith hath made thee 
whole." "Believe only and she shall be made 
whole." "Thy faith hath saved thee." He also 
reproved His disciples for their lack of faith and 
also the generation to whom He spake. 

Faith and Doubt Contrasted 

Faith and doubt are opposites. Faith is posi- 
tive; doubt negative. Faith believes; doubt re- 
jects. Faith abides in confidence; doubt fears 
and questions. Faith opens the doors to all bless- 
ings, possibility, and achievement ; doubt closes 
the doors against all these things. Faith awak- 
ens all the dormant energies of our spiritual and 
mental natures ; doubt represses, puts them to 
sleep, and holds up the picture of inability. Faith 
calls our creative force and energy; doubt lulls 



INTUITION AND FAITH 21 

them into quietness and locks the door of the 
subconscious life like a jailor. Faith is the open 
channel through which God pours into man's 
life all blessings such as love, peace, purity, and 
power ; doubt is the effort to close the channel 
and shut out God and blessings. Faith brings us 
into definite actual relationship with the Infinite 
Power, limitless resources, and mighty possibil- 
ities ; doubt closes the way and shuts out all of 
these things. The measure of one's attainment, 
the great things one does, and the power realized 
in one's life are all measured by one's faith. 
"Where there is Faith there is Love, 
Where there is Love there is Peace, 
Where there is Peace there is God. 
Where there is God there is no need." 

Intuition and Faith 

If you are instrumental in helping and healing 
others the supreme manifestation will be found 
to be faith in yourself, in the power of God, and in 
your fellowmen. Faith and intuition are inti- 
mately related, so that when men accomplish 
great things they see the possibility and glimpse 
an interior power that they possess and then be- 
lieve that they can realize what has been ideal- 
ized or seen in vision. They knew, they believed, 
they did. Veni, vidi, vici. "I came, I saw, I 
conquered." Intuition and faith are the two great 
facts of our mental and spiritual life which bring 



22 HEALING AND HELP 

us into vital relationship with God and make it 
possible to do great things, receive untold bless- 
ings, and see visions to be realized in one's own 
life and in other lives. 



How? 

Ask an artist how he painted his wonderful 
picture and he will tell you he does not know. 
But he knew that it was possible intuitively, and 
believed that he could do it and he did. This is 
equally true of the orator, sculptor, author, 
preacher, teacher, and others who have accom- 
plished some great work. They saw, believed, 
and did it. 

What Faith Does 

Faith stimulates faculties, awakens mental en- 
ergies, calls into activity the deepest powers of 
the human mind and soul and leads these pow- 
ers to concentrate on work, thought, or vision and 
calls into action the quiescent mental forces to 
accomplish the work and realize the result. Faith 
may lead or intuition may direct, but both have a 
part in all permanent work performed whether 
it is healing, helping, or subduing nature. Hope 
has also a place in the form of desire and expecta- 
tion and in a certain stage of mental activity be- 
comes a great handmaid to faith. 



FAITH IN LAW AND ORDER 23 

Strength and Weakness 

When we are "In Tune with the Infinite," 
when we are right with God and our fellowmen, 
then faith in the divine order of things and per- 
sons never changes. It is only when we are out 
of harmony with these things that doubt asserts 
itself and saps our strength mentally, spiritually, 
and physically. The greatest things that have 
been accomplished have been performed by men 
who have had faith in God and man. The skeptic, 
the parasite, the pessimist have neither faith nor 
enthusiasm, which faith encourages, none of the 
force that carries the man of faith through deep 
floods and over high mountains of trial and trou- 
ble to conquest and victory. 

Faith in Law and Order 

Faith in God and His reign in the universe, in 
universal order and divine law is a necessity for 
man's peace, harmony, and plenty, and only doubt 
can destroy that faith and cause man to be an 
eternal wanderer. 

Paul— Wesley— Luther 

There are great difficulties to be surmounted, 
discouragements to be overcome, afflictions to be 
remedied, and new inventions to be brought forth. 
and the men of faith are the ones to do these 
things and they will do them because they be- 
lieve in God who rules all, and who overrules 



24 HEALING AND HELP 

the wrath of man, and inspires him to noble 
deeds. John has been called the Apostle of Love, 
but Paul was the Apostle of Faith. Look at his 
history and work. At one time it seemed that the 
Roman Empire was determined to defeat and 
end his work. He heard the call of Macedonia 
and started the mighty missionary work of Eu- 
rope. He has given the world some of its most 
valuable literature and doctrines ; he established 
churches, wrote letters, gave addresses that shall 
live in influence and power throughout the ages. 
Faith was the inspiring motive in it all. John 
Wesley and his co-laborers by faith changed the 
religious condition of England and influenced the 
whole world spiritually. Martin Luther by faith 
made the Roman Church tremble and started a 
reformation the influence of which in Bible dis- 
tribution, true spiritual worship, and new hope 
cannot be told nor measured. 

Faith and Righteousness 

This universe is governed by righteousness, and 
faith in this, is the cause of so much charitable, 
spiritual, and moral work in the world by men 
who believe in righteousness. Faith gives new 
vision, new motives, new inspiration, and new 
activity, all of which leads to success. When one 
loses faith in God, in himself, and in his fellow- 
men he is started for the land of failure, hope- 
lessness and death. 



OBJECT OF LIFE 25 

Changes Wrought by Faith 

Faith inspires every mental and spiritual pow- 
er, turns defeat into victory, fear into courage, 
depression into enthusiasm, it tunnels mountains, 
bridges streams, and wins battles against wrong 
and unrighteousness. 

Object of Life 

Every person is created for a purpose and mis- 
sion and a positive faith in one's mission means 
success. To believe that one is put here to fulfil 
God's purpose and plan puts zeal and enthusiasm 
into one's life and work. Nothing could stop 
Columbus and success came to him. Nothing 
could stop Luther and the Reformation became a 
fact. Nothing could stop Lincoln and the eman- 
cipation of slaves became a fact in history. These 
persons, and all others, who have accomplished 
great things believed that God had a purpose to 
be wrought by their lives. 

Faith Is a Real Force 

Faith is as real a force as electricity or magnet- 
ism. It is the force that keeps society together, 
gives confidence in the business world, and makes 
the home a place of love and safety. Faith is the 
binding link between God and man, between man 
and man, between man and his Savior. Faith 
cheers us in life, helps us in service, and comforts 
us in death. 



26 HEALING AND HELP 

Three Things Related 

3. There are three things that are related be- 
cause they are somewhat alike. They are called 
magnetism, suggestion, and mental healing. They 
are really one in which suggestion covers them 
all. The first is tactile or pass suggestion in 
which there may be something of a vital element 
transferred to another, and the latter — mental 
healing — is the use of suggestion to awaken the 
mind to new possibilities, and by telepathic pow- 
er aid in substituting good, pure, and spiritual 
thought in the mind of the one in need for the 
depressing fear-thought that has wrought such 
havoc in life. Mental healing embraces the use of 
every form of suggestion and leads to health of 
mind and body. A healthy mind is cheerful, hope- 
ful, and optimistic, and is in right relation to God ; 
a healthy body is free from pain, with a normal 
circulation of blood, normal nerve impulses, and 
strong magnetic energy. 

Avoid Extremes of Thought 

4. It is unwise to think one's self a weakling 
or a god. However, when a man sees his limita- 
tions he has a right, by virtue of his creation and 
privilege, to lay hold upon the Infinite Resources 
at hand and all about him, for "he lives and moves 
and has his being in God." We cannot stand 
alone, although we are made in God's image, but 
we can stand with God through faith in Him, and 



TEACHINGS OF SOME CULTS 27 

manifest His life, health, peace, and joy. We are 
not gods that we can do all things of ourselves. 

Mind and Body 

5. It is generally admitted by all students of 
human life that the mind has wonderful power 
over the body and that the condition of the body 
has an effect upon the mind by a process known 
as reaction. It is almost impossible to cure and 
help one who is possessed with the thought that 
he is going to die. If one desires to help and 
heal others he must know something of the power 
of the mind over the body and the effect of nerve 
reaction on the mind. (See my book on "Sug- 
gestion'' for a full discussion of this.) 

Teachings of Some Cults 

6. There are things taught by certain cults 
to-day that cannot be reasonably and safely ac- 
cepted by any logical thinker. Here are four 
statements at least that must be changed to har- 
monize with reality, common sense, and reason. 
(I) God is a principle. (2) The wrong use of the 
words "I Am." (3) The statement that all is 
good and there is no evil. (4) The statement that 
all is spirit and there is no matter. 

Belief and Actions. 
Inconsistencies. 

These statements are the great obstacles in the 
way of a general and widespread acceptance of 



28 HEALING AND HELP 

the teachings of some forms of Mental Science. 
There is no process of reasoning that can ever 
make those four statements acceptable generally 
and it is only by a process of hypnotization that 
any class can accept them without question. Peo- 
ple who discard the teachings of science, logic, 
and common sense, and who are so gripped by 
the suggestions referred to that they will not hear, 
read, or accept anything else may contend that 
those things are true, and yet by their actions 
prove that they do not believe in them. They act 
as though they believed in matter. Will they butt 
their heads against a large rock and say there is 
no pain? Will they not try to swim in a flood 
to save themselves from drowning? Will they 
take material money for their mental treatment? 
Do they not build houses out of matter in which 
they expect to protect their material bodies from 
material elements? Do they not have their 
thoughts expressed by material type on material 
paper? It makes no difference whatever as to 
their statements as to what matter seems to be, 
and that it is only the result of slow mind vibra- 
tion. They act reasonably and yet in theory and 
statement contradict their sensible action. If they 
think, as they also say, that all is good and there 
is no evil, why do they treat people who are dis- 
eased, depressed, and infirm? If they believe 
their statement, they can see "mortal thought," — 
a phrase to conjure with and a key to unlock the 



FOUR PRINCIPLES EXAMINED 29 

doors of so many mysteries to them, — in opera- 
tion in hospitals, leper colonies, in robbery, mur- 
der, suicides, and in other abnormal conditions. 
It makes no difference as to their explanation as 
to what evil is in their philosophy, yet they take 
due precautions against it by locking their doors 
to keep out thieves, watching their pocket-books, 
and jewels, and guarding against "evil" — "mali- 
cious animal magnetism,"' a bogey of a certain 
leader down to her grave. This philosophy ad- 
vocated by several cults is idealism run to seed 
and Berkeleyism revamped. Let us examine these 
four statements a little more carefully so that we 
shall not be deluded by them. 

The Four Principles Examined 

1. The statement that God is a principle 
makes Him an impersonal God. A principle can- 
not love, is not good or bad, and cannot direct or 
determine its acts. A principle is a course of ac- 
tion or correlation in relation to personality or 
life. The people who say God is a principle 
either misrepresent or do not understand what 
personality is. Personality does not necessarily 
imply bodily existence. Personality is the pecu- 
liar characteristic of the spiritual and mental 
nature. The body is only an instrument of man- 
ifestation, it is not the person. Personality im- 
plies self-consciousness, self-determination, intel- 
lect, affection, and volition. There are other 



30 HEALING AND HELP 

things also but these are basic and essential to 
personality. Such characteristics may be limited 
or unlimited, finite or infinite. The Infinite is 
Omnipotent, Omnipresent, and Omniscient. Our 
fathers believed in, and all who know God as 
Father believe in God's personality. 

Warning 

It is high time that we, who profess to believe 
God's word and in Jesus Christ, His son, raise 
our voices against the intellectual vandalism that 
is going on in certain circles to the injury morally 
and spiritually of hundreds of people in our nation 
and in the world. 

"I Am" 

2. The second statement is another perversion 
of the truth and of language. This may be called 
the I Am theory. Some people go so far as to 
say that "I am God (Good) therefore I am all 
powerful and nothing in all creation can with- 
stand me, and all things are mine." The partial 
truths in these statements make the statements 
false. I concede that these suggestions may re- 
inforce the mind to grip large problems and solve 
them, meet great emergencies and conquer them, 
call into play certain forces, and gain success and 
means, but the implication is that this can be 
done all the time, when the statement is not true. 
A mental-religious frenzy is quite powerful and 



MAN AND GOD 31 

at times is contagious but it dies down and event- 
ually leaves the life like an ebbing tide and only 
the sediment remains. That every one has a 
spiritual nature which potentially has in it God's 
image I do not doubt, but that does not make man 
the "I Am." 

Man and Cod 

That ineffable and incommunicable name never 
has been and never will be given to man and for 
him to assume it is to play the fool and pervert 
language and thought. A child is not his father 
and man is not God. Man is the child of God and 
not God Himself. 

Man's Possibility 

Man by virtue of his creation and potential 
spiritual existence can develop and grow more 
perfect continually, can increase in power and 
glory, but he never will become God and there- 
fore he is not the "I Am." It is time to call a 
halt to this kind of assumption that is unreason- 
able, unscriptural and unphilosophical. 

All Good; No Evil 

3. "All is good and there is no evil" is another 
theory that becomes a blindfold for selfishness 
and produces mental astigmatism. Besides the 
reference above that has been made, let me add 
that there is evil, although it may be a "shadow" 



32 HEALING AND HELP 

as some say. The power of mind may be able to 
turn it to good account although we may not 
always see how. 

Questions and Contradictions 

The Charleston, Messina, and San Francisco 
earthquakes were not primarily good, but good 
indirectly has come out of them in better cities, 
and in hearts made better through the manifesta- 
tion of sympathy and love and help for the suf- 
ferers. Take the slum and red light sections of 
our cities, young lives living in squalor and filth, 
the spirit of greed in business, the spirit of grind- 
ing in money lenders, the cry of poverty and the 
suffering of the innocent, the destruction in war, 
the suffering of the wounded, those bereaved, 
and the destruction of property as illustrations, 
and then let the purblind teachers of the theory 
say, "All is good and there is no evil." What a 
reflection it is on their reason, their commonsense, 
and their mental perception. These things may 
be overruled, for God can overrule the wrath and 
wickedness of man and "make the remainder of 
wrath to praise Him." They say, "All is good 
(God) and there is no evil." Let them explain 
how this can be harmonized with the facts of 
history and actual conditions. 

Positive and Negative 

It is more reasonable to assume that there are 



EVIL WILL GO DOWN 33 

positive and negative conditions and both exist — 
the one because God causes them and the other 
because God permits them. The good things are 
positive and the evil, negative. To assert that 
the negative conditions do not exist is to stultify 
actual facts which is not wise. Call evil things 
shadows, unreality, good in the making, whatever 
you please, yet the facts remain and will until 
negative things are made positive and Christ be- 
comes actual King in this world. Evil does exist 
and so does good and out of evil good may come. 
The how we do not know but God knows. 

Evil Will Go Down 

I concede that evil is not only negative, but that 
a negative condition of mind produces evils and 
when all people become positive in mental atti- 
tude many evils will cease to exist or manifest 
themselves. This is true of liquor selling and 
drinking, unchastity, all impurity in thought and 
act, profanity, selfishness, and all other evils — 
they will cease when men become right with God 
and positive in their mental activity. 

Calling God "good" does not change the con- 
ditions of evil manifestation and only as we see 
I lim as a personal Being — loving, just, and merci- 
ful, having all power, wisdom, and knowledge, 
working in man to produce a positive as against 
a negative attitude of mind and life, will evil be 
conquered and good be established in this world. 



34 HEALING AND HELP 

Good Will Triumph 

The I Am theory is an arrogant assumption 
and illogical, and the "all good and no evil" 
theory is a metaphysical hoodoo that changes 
things reasonable and actual into a self-satis- 
fied condition of mind that leads to self-right- 
eousness and lack of interest in and help for man- 
kind in its sorrow and cry for aid. 

Matter and No Matter 

4. The "no matter and all is spirit" theory 
does not remove the actual facts concerning, and 
manifestation of, what we call matter. That mat- 
ter may be permeated with spirit, ether, or a 
subtle force we do not question, but it is matter 
nevertheless and is subject to certain laws. It 
may be slow vibration of spirit or mind or force, 
but in its manifestation it is matter. The people 
accepting this theory know this, act reasonably 
concerning it, consider it as a fact and act ac- 
cordingly. They do not stand on the street in 
the middle of a street car track or sit down on a 
rail and just spiritually will to go miles away. 
No, they get on the car and ride to their desti- 
nation. 

Certain Forms of Matter 

Certain forms of matter have a greater amount 
of spiritual power than others. For instance the 
human body has more of spirit than a stone or 



MIND CAN ACT ON MIND 35 

a house, but the human body holds it a shorter 
time, and then the body dissolves into dust, and 
gradually into certain chemical elements and 
gases. The spirit has gone somewhere. 

One Mind Can 
Act on Another 

That one mind can act on and influence an- 
other mind is unquestioned by psychologists and 
persons that have had anything to do with other 
people in helping and healing them. Those, thus 
dealing with people, ought to instruct them also 
in the power of one's own mind to restore one 
if he is sick, informing the student or patient as 
to how he can use auto-suggestion and hygienic 
measures in restoring the health. No power is 
so great in one's self as auto-suggestion and per- 
sonal methods by which one can carry on ef- 
ficiently self-development, recover health, and 
prevent sickness. Ninety per cent of the cases 
of ordinary sickness would recover without a 
doctor because nature tends to the normal and if 
there is proper care and good nursing recovery 
is assured. Mental healers and others get numer- 
ous cases where the doctors have failed to help 
or they did not know how to make suggestions 
effectively or how to direct the auto-suggestion of 
the sick one. Those persons by proper instruc- 
tion and response to the healer's word, thought, 
or act recovered. He simply used the law that 



36 HEALING AND HELP 

one mind can influence and direct and act on an- 
other mind under favorable conditions. Every 
function of the body is consciously or uncon- 
sciously under the influence of the mind and cer- 
tain remarkable results follow the proper direc- 
tion of suggestions so that the recipient's mind 
under the power of suggestion will work and re- 
cover him from the ailment. It is utilizing the 
law of suggestion in its power through the sub- 
conscious manifestation of mind. 

Mental Conditions May 
Produce Serious Effects 

The nerves which control the circulation of 
blood by carrying the impulses started by the 
commands of another's mind or one's own mind 
can increase or decrease the blood flow. Some- 
times a conscious manifestation of mind may in- 
crease or decrease the circulation, as in the flush- 
ing or paling of the face, under the power of 
certain emotions. Sudden fear, shock, joy, or 
sorrow may produce these effects and may also 
cause death. 

For example, some doctors blindfolded a crim- 
inal's eyes, took a sponge and filled it with warm 
water, put a basin under his arm, and allowed 
warm water to trickle down the arm after they 
had scratched it. They told him that they had 
lanced it. They suggested that the blood was 
flowing away rapidly and that the man was 



METHOD AND RESULTS 37 

growing pale and weak. His mind under the 
power of imagination by inhibition slowed down 
every vital process and he died. 

Method and Results 

The healer usually talks quietly to the patient 
and he may or may not introduce mental heal- 
ing, but the patient, because he has come, settles 
into a receptive condition mentally and is desirous 
of receiving information or help. Patient and 
healer sit silently for a time and each may have 
his eyes closed or covered with the hand and 
each, especially the healer, concentrates on the 
desired result and to a certain extent on the 
processes leading up to the result. Different 
methods are used by different schools. What 
occurs? A power within and without works to- 
gether for recovery and uplift of the patient. 
Call this power evolutionary tendency, mental 
co-operation, or God — it is there, and it mani- 
fests goodness, truth, and love and tends to a 
normal condition in both healer and the one who 
needs help. Inasmuch as all life and mind are 
one, under certain favorable conditions, this 
mighty force impels toward a normal, healthy, 
and optimistic condition. The normal condition 
and tendency in human life is toward health 
and action and interference with that condition of 
normal tendency will produce mental and physi- 
cal suffering. 



38 HEALING AND HELP 

The Force at Work 

No one knows the great strength of this force 
in its operation and power of restoration, but 
one thing often occurs which astounds the 
friends of the sufferer, that is, that intense suf- 
fering yields quickly and marvelously when the 
opposition is removed so that the force may be 
allowed perfect freedom of action. There have 
been many instantaneous cures wrought in this 
way, but in the ordinary cases the mind must do 
its work more gradually. Opposition to this 
force is fatal and will prevent a cure, while un- 
belief will interfere with the working of this 
force and will prevent favorable results until it 
is overcome or removed. 

Telepathy, Law of 
Agreement and Results 

The one who practices mental healing must 
give some instructions to the patient and thus 
prepare him or her for what is to be done. One 
very important matter is that the mind of the 
patient shall be quiet and shall think of health 
and a normal condition. The quiet talk of the 
healer prepares for this and when that is finished 
the patient is requested to be quiet and think of 
nothing particularly, and relax as much as pos- 
sible. He can lie on a couch, or bed, or sit in an 
easy chair and close his eyes. The healer holds 
in his mind a picture of the patient in a normal 



VISUALIZATION WITH THOUGHT 39 

condition. This picture or condition is held with 
tenacity and persistency for ten or fifteen min- 
utes. He sees the patient as he should be. This 
image by thought transference is impressed on 
the sick one's mind as a possibility. The strong 
desire of the patient seizes and reproduces the 
picture as an actuality. He may be quite uncon- 
scious of doing anything for himself and when he 
recovers he will probably give the credit to the 
healer. The change is wrought by the life-giving 
force which two wills with desire set into opera- 
tion. These two wills and the desire of each per- 
son work in harmony. This is perfect action in 
correspondence with the law of agreement. (See 
Matthew 18:19.) "If two of you shall agree on 
earth as touching anything that they shall ask, 
it shall be done for them of my Father who is 
in Heaven." 

The sick man could not have wrought the 
change alone, nor by simply willing in response 
to a spoken command by the healer. But the 
silent thought which is swifter and more power- 
ful than electricity was projected into the sub- 
conscious mind of the ailing one and it worked 
a radical change in his mental attitude towards 
the divine power which can alone make him 
whole. This is the secret of all faith cures that 
are authentic. The Scriptures teach entire re- 
liance on a Divine Power which may be invoked 
by faith and which can cure and help. There are 



40 HEALING AND HELP 

recorded cases where some invalids, having a 
strong faith in God, have brought into operation 
this restorative influence by a deliberate sugges- 
tion and act of the conscious mind, in accord 
with the action of the subconscious mind, which 
is similar to that performed by the healer for a 
patient. He who desires to be well and receives 
the thought or picture of health held in the mind 
of the healer, or in his own conscious mind, 
and strongly accepts the same, will often get 
the result. The act is the result of the belief in 
the teachings of the Bible and suggestions given 
and made plain by spiritual intuition, rather than 
by any scientific knowledge. 

Duty 

We all live on different planes, under different 
conditions, with different responsibilities, and 
therefore there is a different viewpoint from 
which we look at these and other things. But 
on each plane we ought to be harmonious with, 
and work out the Divine purpose by. conscious 
co-operation with the highest laws. 

Causes of Sickness 

The real causes of sickness are the violations 
of the laws of our nature, sin, ignorance, and en- 
vironmental conditions. The causes produce 
corresponding results and as the causes are re- 
moved the effects are decreased and will sooner 



TRUTH AND EVIL 41 

or later vanish. Sickness and trouble, etc., call 
a halt in our activities and often bring a great 
change in our spiritual thinking and inner life. 
So that faith in this Spiritual power — healing, 
helping, and restoring — works a great change in 
the life, and finally it dawns upon us as a scien- 
tific fact that such a power exists and can be 
used. 

Some Invalids 

Some invalids become "sour and fretful" under 
affliction. They rebel against the lesson to be 
learned and before healing can come there must 
be spiritual regeneration and other changes in 
disposition and life. 

Truth and Evil 

The skillful healer will study the causes of the 
conditions and lead the patient to understand and 
overcome those causes. Evolution is a process 
of unfoldment and man must co-operate with it. 
It is the knowledge of good and evil that brings 
conflict and man's power to choose between them 
leads him to co-operate with the divine law and 
fight against the evil. Recognizing evil inten- 
tionally and loving it, leads to low standards and 
inhibition against the unfolding and manifesta- 
tion of the best part of one's nature. Lack of 
harmony with the Divine Law leads to suffering 
and the only sure relief is to establish our proper 



42 HEALING AND HELP 

relation to this law and the mighty forces which 
play in the personality. Ideals held down, mean 
ideals not realized. The power that can free our 
ideals is truth, which alone can make us free. We 
must learn the laws of our being and the truth- 
ful use of these laws will bring to us the secret 
of properly governing our lives. 

Mental Causation 

Physical, mental, and spiritual effects are pro- 
duced by mental and spiritual states. The emo- 
tions acting through the nervous system produce 
immediate chemical changes in the body and 
they are reflected upon the outward features, 
form, and face. 

Mental Attitude 

The possibility of mental healing depends on 
the mental attitude. Correcting the mental at- 
titude will cure disease and keeping that attitude 
always correct and right will prevent disease. 
People quickly and easily influenced mentally are 
easy subjects of contagion. Nine-tenths of all 
diseases originate primarily in the mind or re- 
sult from sin, using sin as not always an act but 
also a mental state, and lack of harmony with the 
Divine Law. 

Faith and Using 
Auto-Suggestion 

Physicians recognize a mental cause in many 



VIOLATION OF MORAL LAW 43 

cases of sickness and other ailments, and rec- 
ommend a change of scene, or that the patient 
should stop worrying, or that he should do some- 
thing to take the mind off of his condition and 
not be introspective. Many physicians say "the 
people are living too fast" and "that worry and 
not work is killing thousands." They also rec- 
ognize that persons with strong constitutions, 
those with great recuperative powers, with a 
strong desire to be healthy, these conditions can 
speedily bring many of them back to health. 
The truth about it is that the faith of patients 
in the doctor cures more people than the medi- 
cines given. It is a well known law that by 
using auto-suggestion many persons may be re- 
covered from their ailments. Let me illustrate. 
If you frequently tell the stomach that its juices 
are sufficient to do the work needed in digesting 
the food and command it to secrete these juices 
freely and encourage it to do so, the result will 
be surprising to one afflicted with stomach 
trouble. There ought to be an observance of the 
laws of mastication and proper care of the stom- 
ach so that there will be a co-operation with the 
suggestions. This is also true of other organs. 

Violation of Moral Law 

It is hardly necessary that it should be said 
that a violation of moral law will bring serious 
physical consequences and lashings of conscience. 



44 HEALING AND HELP 

The drunkard, the licentious, the defamer of 
character, and other persons illustrate what I 
mean, and also persons doing less terrible things 
reap what they sow. The sinful thought pre- 
cedes the sinful act. The thought is worse than 
the act because it shows a condition of mind 
and indicates a mental habit. The only cure, 
therefore, for sinful acts is to change the mind 
habit, and fill the mind with pure, elevat- 
ing thoughts. Making a man feel that he 
is a hardened, hopeless sinner will not help 
him. But leading him to turn from sin, 
change his mind (repentance), and turn to God 
with the positive intention of doing His will, 
leading a pure life and becoming victor over 
wrong will start him on the right road and keep 
him there. When one thinks and believes that 
he is powerless to help himself or find help the 
battle is lost. 

Consequences of 
Wrong Doing — Fear 

Some teachers say the soul is perfect and 
needs no healing, that it is made in God's image 
and therefore has all things necessary for health, 
perfection, and sinlessness. Jesus said, "They 
that be whole need no physician, but they that 
are sick." We are potentially perfect, made in 
God's image, and "live and move and have our 
being in Him," but we may become prodigals; 



WRONG THINKING 45 

but as we return repentant and renew our vital 
union with and in the Infinite Source of Life, we 
are awakened to our possibilities and potential 
wholeness and can go on to perfection. Yielding 
to wrong thought and doing wrong things will 
produce a feeling of inharmony with God, bring 
a feeling of alienation, guilt, despondency, and 
anxiety, and these things undermine the health 
and produce adverse conditions in one's life and 
in the lives of others. Fear is an emotion that 
very speedily interferes with the normal work- 
ing of the bodily functions and makes one liable 
to all kinds of evil. Fear of contagion renders 
one susceptible to it, creates all kinds of imag- 
inary and real disease, and weakens one mentally 
and physically. Imaginary diseases and troubles 
are numerous. Mental suspiciousness of coming 
calamities, troubles, and losses can be made to 
disappear by changing the mental attitude, by 
getting the mental thought right as regards one's 
relation to God and righteousness. That change 
will remove those adverse thoughts and bring 
peace into the mind. "As a man thinketh in his 
heart, so is he." 



Nurses do not ordinarily take diseases because 
they keep their minds free from fear and observe 
hygienic laws. Many of them are great inspira- 
tions to patients and they radiate health, hope, 



46 HEALING AND HELP 

and happiness. Such nurses are a blessing. The 
gloomy, pessimistic, and hopeless sort are pests 
and always fail. 

Thought 

Each one of us carries his own mental atmos- 
phere. If good, it is helpful ; if bad, it is hurtful. 
Wise, good, and harmonious thoughts definitely 
concentrated and disseminated always help to 
make this world better. Thought is a mighty 
power, shaping and molding the whole of human 
life with its joys and sorrows, sickness and health. 
Good thoughts are positive, health-giving, up- 
lifting, whilst bad thoughts are negative, health- 
destroying, and depressing. Have only the for- 
mer, never have or cultivate the latter ! 

Certain Psychic Powers 

There are certain psychic powers possessed by 
all persons, and they can be used under certain 
conditions to aid one in his recovery from illness 
and trouble. They can also assist in bringing 
certain things into the mind and also cause the 
mind to perform some very remarkable feats. 
Will power, intense desire, spiritual perception, 
intuition, faith, telepathy, lucidity (generally 
called clairvoyance), kinetic power, etc., are some 
of these powers which show the remarkable abil- 
ity of the mind. Each characteristic named has a 
special manifestation for a very definite purpose. 



TELEPATHY 47 

Let me enlarge on the one psychic power known 
as telepathy. There are hundreds of illustrations 
of these powers and cases given in works like 
"Phantasms of the Living," which are the reports 
of the Psychical Research Society of London, in 
Meyer's books, in Sidgewick's writings, in Pod- 
more's works, and others. Telepathy is the trans- 
mission of a message or help from one mind to 
another without the ordinary use of means. A 
good illustration is the account in the New Testa- 
ment of the curing of the centurion's son by Jesus. 
(John 4:46-53.) Here Jesus spake the word and 
it was done. Here was a telepathic cure. 

Telepathy 

Telepathy is the normal means of communica- 
tion between two minds in thorough accord. The 
probable chief means of communication between 
animals is telepathic and man uses this power in 
controlling animals. Intuition also plays a large 
part in the mental life of man. It corresponds to 
instinct in animals. Whilst we cannot reason with 
an animal, we can command and control it by 
the will. This is the secret of the power of horse 
trainers and animal trainers. They are usually 
men and women of strong wills; they mentally 
assert their power and animals submit. 

What follows here is very important and the 
student should memorize it. 



48 HEALING AND HELP 

A Law — Faith 

Thought transference or telepathy in healing is 
used to bring the patient's mind into a right atti- 
tude in order to secure the quickest and best 
results by the operation of the healing forces of 
his body and the power of his mind. Distance is 
no barrier if the patient's mind is receptive and 
not antagonistic. If in the latter condition telep- 
athy will have no effect or very little and the 
results will be very meager, if at all noticeable. 
Faith is the doorkeeper of the subconscious mind 
and nothing can fully and influentially enter that 
mind unless faith opens the door and approves. 
Faith hears by repetition and becomes interested 
by seeing benefits promised and responds to re- 
peated suggestions from the healer or from one's 
conscious mind. 

Patient and Healer 

The patient must offer a similar or the same 
prayer consciously or unconsciously, in the same 
spirit with the healer or have the same desires in 
order to be positively and permanently benefited. 
His heart must be right in the sight of God and 
his physical conditions must begin to conform 
themselves to the inward harmony of mind. 

A General Law 

Mental healing is helpful in all cases of sick- 
ness, for the reason that a spiritual force is called 



THE GREAT FORCE IN US 49 

into operation in greater activity under favorable 
mental exercise. That force is increased or di- 
minished under favorable or unfavorable mental 
manifestation. If any infirmity is healed at all, it 
is alleviated by this force, ^Ye may use artificial 
means, we may try to upbuild the physical sys- 
tem, but the vital process of the body brings 
healing and help to those that are sick and needy. 



If a splinter is run into the hand the vital forces 
work to force it out; if we eat something that 
does not agree with us, this force tries to throw it 
out; if we break a bone, the vital forces of the 
body will knit it together if it is set, and if not, 
it will work anyhow doing the best it can to help 
and heal the abnormal condition. 

The Great Force in Us 

This great vital force will first find its way to 
abnormal conditions and under the direction of 
the subconscious mind will try to adjust and 
correct those conditions. Mental antagonism, 
doubt, worry, fear, and wrong doing will hinder 
and interfere with this force doing what it could 
and would otherwise do. Nature tends to the 
normal, and the helpful mental attitude operating 
through tlii^ vital force, will accomplish wonders 
in recovering one from disease and ailments as 
well as from other things. All abnormal condi- 



50 HEALING AND HELP 

tions, all forms of disease can be greatly modified 
and helped by psychic power. There are some 
persons so constituted that they must have a 
soothing application of some kind applied to help 
their faith and thus secure what others get by 
simply exercising the mental power in order to 
recover from the ailment. 

Faith Essential 

Faith is essential in all methods of treatment 
and in the recovery of the patient. If it is touch- 
ing a relic like the bones of saints, the holy coat 
of Treaves, or kissing an altar, faith is essential 
in order to get any therapeutic benefit. This is 
true also concerning the atonement of Christ ; 
faith in what He has done is the one essential in 
order that one may be reconciled to God. 



Faith in the healer is usually essential in order 
to get the best results for the patient. The re- 
sults may not be the same in each patient, but the 
essential thing — faith — is the same. This great 
force — mysterious as it is — is accepted by all 
psychologists and physiologists and reverently 
believed in. "According to thy faith be it unto 
you" is a hint of the mighty working of that 
force under the power of the mind exercising 
faith. 



FAITH DEVELOPED 51 

Faith Developed 

Whilst some methods of treatment do not de- 
mand faith at the start, such as Mental Science, 
Christian Science, and hypnotic treatment, yet 
they develop faith by suggestion and use effects 
tellingly before the patient is conscious that he 
possesses faith. Excitement is thus avoided and 
possible adverse reactions prevented after relig- 
ious exaltation. 



Unbelief is a great obstacle which prevents the 
patient himself from securing good results. That 
unbelief may be in the patient's mind, in the 
minds of those who know him, or possibly in the 
mind of the healer as a mere doubt. 

Hindrances 

To get the best results it is necessary that the 
healer should have the implicit confidence of the 
patient, should know his character, and in a meas- 
ure something of his thoughts and habits in order 
to bring the patient permanent help. It is pos- 
sible that the influence of those associated with 
the patient, their doubts and fears, may counter- 
act all the beneficent suggestion of the healer. 
This can be counteracted, in a large measure, by 
the patient if he can keep the work that is being 
done for him a secret. If one fails to be healed and 
helped by prayer, suggestion, telepathy, or by any 



52 HEALING AND HELP 

other psychic method it simply proves that some- 
thing counteracted the manifestation of the mind 
through the vital force of the body. 

Differences in Healers 

Some healers succeed when others fail. There 
are many reasons why this is so. Each one has 
his own personality and it appeals to the patient 
attractively or otherwise, and if the patient does 
not feel that he can place his confidence in the 
healer, very little, if any effect will result. Then, 
too, there may be conditions that do not and will 
not yield except by vigorous measures, but these 
and many other causes make one successful and 
another non-successful. 

Jesus and the Lad 

Jesus came from the Mount of Transfiguration 
down to the valley of service and found a lad that 
the disciples failed to cure. In His explanation 
He said, "This kind (of spirit) goeth not out but 
by fasting and prayer" — letting go of earth and 
taking hold of heaven — vigorous measures. 
(Matt. 17:21.) 

Spiritual Must Be 
Supreme 

Let me remark here that spirituality is essential 
to a successful healer. There must be a genuine, 
complete supremacy of the spiritual over the ani- 
mal nature. Jesus was not an ascetic, but He was 



PRAYER AND WHAT IT IS 53 

the most spiritual being that ever walked on this 
earth. His teachings are ideally far beyond the 
reach of the human race after twenty centuries 
of study and testing. 



A certain woman was rapidly tending to a 
condition of nervous prostration caused by over- 
strain and dissipation in social engagements. She 
left home for awhile and attended'a religious con- 
vention determined to regain the beautiful and 
peaceful inner life which she had lost. When she 
became quiet and passive to God a comfortable, 
peaceful rest came into her mind and God seemed 
to speak to her. After her experiences she re- 
turned home free from nervous prostration and 
full of life and peace. When we give our higher 
nature its rightful supremacy, splendid results 
will follow. (Rom. 8:1-6.) 

Prayer and What It Is 

A further brief discussion of prayer will help 
to make some matters plain that have only been 
hinted at. Man has been called "a praying ani- 
mal." He realizes in his best moments, and in a 
degree at all times, that he sustains a vital rela- 
tionship with a Being who is Spirit, upon whom 
he is dependent for his life and to whom he is 
responsible for his actions. No difference what 
his state of mind may be, how far he may seem 



54 HEALING AND HELP 

to get away from that relationship, he never en- 
tirely loses the thought of it. All truth is har- 
monious and never contradictory, so if we do not 
see just how we may harmonize prayer with the 
known laws of nature, yet in our better moments 
and reasoning we feel that below the sense of 
perception there is harmony, for the same Being 
that made nature made the soul of man and there- 
fore they cannot be contradictory. Possibly the 
answer to the question, "What is prayer?" may 
make the harmony clearer. Prayer is not words 
however beautiful they may be. In fact, true 
prayer may not be couched in words. "Prayer is 
the soul's sincere desire, uttered or unexpressed." 
God knows and reads the thoughts and the life. 
He is intelligence, goodness, love, and will ; and 
He can hear, understand, and help us. 



Many answers to prayers may be explained by 
coincidences, hallucinations, and with the very 
credulous may be accepted as direct answers from 
God. There are many prayers that are definite 
answers from our Heavenly Father. Facts have 
been gathered from all over the world and there 
is no other logical conclusion that can be reached 
except that God has answered the prayers. We 
cannot go into the psychology of this here, but 
will in a later book on Spiritual Therapeutics. It 
is not only logical to conclude that definite an- 



THE DIVINE LAW 55 

swers have been given to prayer — whether tele- 
pathically or in coming in contact with definite 
laws that God has established which may be 
reached through prayer, or as a direct answer to 
the prayer offered — but the facts are so specific 
and unanswerable that prayer is answered, that 
the very conditions can be stated, complied with 
and answers secured. 

Mental and 
Spiritual Healing 

The phenomena of mental and spiritual healing 
proves also that prayer is answered, and a com- 
pliance with the laws governing the same will 
bring the same results. Unbelieving prayers are 
not answered, but the prayer of acknowledge- 
ment, thanksgiving, and faith brings the answer 
and fills the soul with new life and power. 
(Phil. 4:6.) 

Divine Law 

The concentration of healing and helpful 
thoughts, holding in the mind a picture of the 
wholeness of the patient by the healer is a prayer 
m mental action which uses a law of divine ap- 
pointment. Prayer is a definite appeal of human 
thought to the Divine life and power. "The still, 
small voice," "soul silence," and open-mindedness 
bring us into relation with God. "They that wait 
on the Lord shall renew their strength." (Is. 40: 
last two verses.) 



56 HEALING AND HELP 

Result of Waiting 

The result of this waiting is that selfishness 
goes down, the mind concentrates its thought and 
desire on the Infinite Spirit, and a longing to have 
a fullness of His life, power, love, and health leads 
to the appropriation of the same with wonderful 
results. 

An Effective Healer 

The desire and thought must be in harmony 
with the Divine Will. Hence the most success- 
ful healer is he who can most readily and per- 
fectly enter into "soul silence" and concentrate 
his thought on the strongest and best desires with 
complete confidence of realization. He must live 
in the spiritual part of his nature and believe im- 
plicitly with his whole soul in God upon whom he 
depends. He must see God as an overflowing 
fountain of love and good will toward mankind 
and that he can bring the soul by loving mental 
influence into relationship with this love and 
good will, so as to change the nature of the one 
coming for help. Whilst great intellectuality may 
not be a necessity for the work, yet it is, if prop- 
erly directed, a great help. 

Preparation 

Personality, power to win the confidence of the 
one to be helped, and inspiring faith towards him- 
self are necessary to efficiency in healing others. 



UNITY OF MIND AND GOD 57 

If you as a worker, a healer, want to be success- 
ful, commune in silence with your Heavenly Fa- 
ther, pray much, seek wisdom from above, and 
do as Jesus did. If you would be inspired with 
new thoughts and inspire others by their utter- 
ance, take time from duties less important, to 
draw from the only true source of inspiration. 
Nothing will be lost, but much will be gained, 
and Christ will be glorified in your life and in the 
lives of others that you may try to help and heal. 

Unity of Mind and God 

When the conscious and subconscious mani- 
festations of mind work harmoniously a master- 
piece of genius will result. The ordinary sub- 
conscious conditions are healthy, recuperative, 
and inspirational, and produce a corresponding 
effect on the personality. Hence the eccentrici- 
ties of genius are not due to the overactivity of 
the subconscious manifestation of mind, but to 
the inability on the part of the conscious mind to 
work in perfect union with the subconscious. 
The more subconscious activity in the mental life, 
the more normal, healthy, and powerful we shall 
be. Prayer, the consolations of religion, the ex- 
ercise of faith, definite and real relations to God 
produce that effect in one's life. God is a reality 
in this universe, and the soul does have a vital 
relation to Him and receives what lie has to 
rive. When the mind sees this and realizes this, 



58 HEALING AND HELP 

wonderful results will follow. Telepathy is a 
method by which one mind influences another to 
become positive instead of negative, to throw off 
worry, fear, trouble, sickness, and adverse condi- 
tions. It is also a method by which the mind of 
God can help man in his whole life and give him 
relief from all adverse and harmful conditions. 

Jesus and Prayer — Sea- 
sons and Conditions 

It is a good thing to have frequent seasons of 
prayer in order to develop strength and vigor of 
intellect and heart. This kind of an atmosphere 
gives spiritual oxygen and produces vigorous 
spiritual breathing and health. Jesus dwelt in 
this atmosphere and manifested the most perfect 
and vigorous spiritual health ever found in any- 
one. Prayer is not only asking of and waiting on 
the Lord, but it prepares one to be receptive and 
watchful towards the Lord. There is no record 
of Jesus ever being sick, but living as He did in 
the spiritual side of His life and in prayerful rela- 
tion to God it prevented His getting sick. He 
observed times of prayer to and communion with 
the Father. When seemingly busiest, when most 
pressed by the multitudes, when demands upon 
His heart were greatest, He frequently went aside 
for a season of prayer. The result of this prayer- 
ful spirit was an unruffled life, an unshaken calm 
confidence, and a positive assurance that the Fa- 



SECRET OF PRAYER 59 

ther's will was definitely to be revealed. Prayer 
and communion were great channels of strength 
and assurance to Him and will be to all persons 
who sincerely use them. "There is a strength 
which comes in solitude from that shadowy awful 
Presence that frivolous crowds repel. 7 ' "As He 
was in the world so are we" to be. There is a 
great gain to those who take time to pray and do 
God's will. 

Secret 

Our prayers are too often only a form and we 
really do not expect answers to them and strength 
from them. If poets, orators, artists, and musi- 
cians need time to wait quietly for inspiration in 
order to do their work well, why do not men who 
want to glorify God in' helping their fellow men 
and healing soul and body by the use of the 
truth, need time for prayer, communion, and in- 
spiration also? 

Conditions 

Quietness, change of thought may bring just 
what we need to help ourselves and others. Bus- 
iness, hurry, worry, flurry prevents prayer and 
quietness being exercised so that men and women 
today, who ought to be masters of themselves and 
their work, victors over anxiety and its brood of 
worries, conquerors over wrong and its manifold 
guilt, are simply overpowered by these things, are 



60 HEALING AND HELP 

left helpless and in many cases hopeless. When 
called upon to help others they are too weak to 
help themselves. This is true of teaching also and 
a number of other things that I need not mention. 

Intuition and 
Spiritual Perception 

Intuition and spiritual perception are not active 
in masterly manifestation when one's nerves are 
on edge. There is no one thing that can bring the 
nerves and soul powers into victorious activity 
like a half-hour of quietness and silence toward 
God, daily looking to Him in expectation of being 
filled and guided by His spirit. (James 1:5-8). 
The peace referred to is that which James also 
describes in the third chapter, seventeenth and 
eighteenth verses. 



When anyone gets into a prayerful spirit and 
conscious communion with God, he will lay aside 
selfishness and receive what God will give of in- 
ppiration, love, and power, whether he is a simple 
follower, a teacher, a preacher, a healer, a hearer, 
a learner, or a patient. God's blessings, "Thus 
saith the Lord," wisdom, and all help is condi- 
tioned by His love, power, and presence and they 
who are ready to receive these things realize their 
incoming into their lives. 



LAW OF SUGGESTION USED 61 

Secrets 

The world makes some advancement by the 
use of scientific knowledge, but much more by a 
development of spiritual consciousness in waves 
of aspiration, enthusiasm, and compassion which 
is God's inspiration working through men chosen 
to do great things. They become enthusiasts, 
dead to self and alive to God and follow their 
intuitions and throw the whole weight of their 
personality into the influence and work of their 
lives. Jesus Christ is the highest, noblest, and 
best example of this truth. Believing in Him, 
following Him, developing soul power by inti- 
macy with Him is a method of preparation for 
effectively helping and healing mankind. 

Power Comes Gradually 

This power does not come at once, but usually 
comes slowly. If we truly desire it with unself- 
ishness, and if we are longing and eagerly wait- 
ing for it, then we shall receive it and glorify God 
in its use to help and heal our fellowmen. 

The Great Law of 
Suggestion Used 

The same principle of healing is used by dif- 
ferent schools, sects, or churches in their effort to 
heal disease. Different teachings may be advo- 
cated and seemingly different methods may be 
used, but the same principle effectively applied is 
suggestion, which controls the subconscious 



62 HEALING AND HELP 

mind, and that mind controls and works through 
the vital functions of the body. Some claim that 
the healing is effected by Divine Power and say 
that genuine spiritual regeneration is necessary 
in securing permanent results. Faith in Christ, 
therefore, is a requirement on the part of the 
afflicted. Some claim that faith is necessary at 
the outset, some declare that it is necessary to 
have faith to secure any results, and some say 
that it is not necessary to have it at all. 

States of Receiving 
Suggestions 

Faith is the channel, suggestion is the method, 
the power of God is the force that heals and helps 
the needy. The best results are secured to the 
patient from the healer when the patient's con- 
scious mind is quiescent. There are many phases 
of quiescence in patients which favor the accept- 
ance of the suggestions given. The phases extend 
from mere passive acceptance to deep sleep with 
the healer en rapport, and each phase has some 
advantages according to the condition of the pa- 
tient. Some healers contend that in ordinary 
sleep the best results are secured and they there- 
fore usually treat in that state. Others prefer 
hypnotic sleep. Whilst others say they can get 
their best results when the patient is calm and 
receptive to their quiet and telepathic visualiza- 
tion and suggestion. The last is the best and 
easiest method to follow. 



SOURCE OF INSPIRATION 63 

Prayer Uplifting 

Where prayer, which is more or less subcon- 
scious, is used there is an uplifting effect on the 
mind with a corresponding effect on the body. 
Outward things and bodily feelings are often 
forgotten when prayer is used, either silent or 
audible, and the soul surrenders to the highest 
and best influences it is capable of receiving. 
"Prayer is the Christian's vital breath, the Chris- 
tian's native air." 

Source of Inspiration 

If one truly believes in God and rests in Him, 
the poet's words are true for the soul and body. 
As true prayer is more or less subconscious, so 
is the inspiration of the true poet, artist, and mu- 
sician. The soul projects the pictures or the 
rhythm, and the conscious mind seizes and in- 
terprets these things, so the world can have 
them. The greatest poetry, the most splendid 
works of art, the masterpieces of music were 
born in the subconscious before they took out- 
ward form, and those who have done the work 
cannot tell how it was done. 

Faith Developed 

Unconscious faith may be developed by 
thought transference from the healer to the pa- 
tient. The patient submits because of his desire 
to be helped and healed, and as the healer leads 



64 HEALING AND HELP 

in silent or audible prayer the patient uncon- 
sciously follows and faith is produced and exer- 
cised in the audible or silent suggestions given 
and visualizations performed and corresponding 
results follow. God has established the law, and 
it is by using this power, by doing what is re- 
quired, giving up wrong doing, confessing or 
throwing out sins committed, and resting in the 
promises of God's word that we come to peace, 
joy, and happiness, and these are favorable to 
the restoration of health. (See John 1 :9.) 

How the Healing Is 
Done and Received 

At first the healer has faith for two and hold- 
ing that faith strongly influences the patient and 
changes his mental attitude and establishes an 
agreement between the healer and the patient 
(the law of agreement.) As the thoughts of Di- 
vine Power are awakened in the mind of the one 
to be helped, he reverently and consciously be- 
lieves with beneficial effects. One great element 
of the permanence of the cure wrought depends 
on the possibility of self-help for the future. The 
healed one seems to be lifted temporarily to a 
higher spiritual plane of living through his faith 
and hope. If he stays there it will be a constant 
help and a happy experience, if he relapses into 
the old life, he gets back the old effects and 
sometimes in an augmented degree. The greater 



SELF MASTERY AND PREPARATION 65 

light brings greater responsibility and should 
bring greater enthusiasm. In many cases it does, 
in some it does not which is their loss. Divine 
assistance is at hand, but it must be appropriated 
according to the laws which God has established. 

Self-Discipline 

Self-discipline must be carried out but it is a 
long gradual process of education. Growth and 
results are necessary in the development of one's 
powers to make his life a force and to secure 
self-poise, a good mental and spiritual balance. 
This condition will help us to do more work, en- 
dure greater fatigue, bear bravely the severest 
trials and through all our experiences keep a 
youthful look and power and a sweet content- 
ment of mind. An inner illumination comes 
through a right relation to God, high and holy 
thinking, then there will be an exhilarating exer- 
cise, and spiritual and physical control will be 
manifested in the life. "Seek first the kingdom 
of God and His righteousness and all these 
(necessary) things will be added unto you." 

Self Mastery and Personal 
Preparation Condition of Success 

Self-treatment is good and beneficial, but must 
be forgotten in treating others in order that the 
mind shall be concentrated on one thing and on 
the one to be helped. Self-mastery of the mental 
and physical life, contemplation of pure ideals 



66 HEALING AND HELP 

and the realization of these ideals in the life, with 
the cleansing of the affections, all lead to efficien- 
cy in helping and healing others. The Church's 
work is to do those things by presenting the 
highest and noblest truths and leading the soul 
to appropriate those truths and manifest them in 
the life. We are to fill our consciousness with 
the highest ideals, crowd out low thoughts and 
hurtful fleshly impulses and actions, "pray with- 
out ceasing" in pure sweet living, and living our 
life "hid with Christ in God" in order that we 
shall help the Church do the wonderful work of 
healing and helping others. 

High Standard 

You may say that this is a high standard. It 
is and one that is presented to us in the New 
Testament. "As He was in the world," so are 
we to be. This ideal self-consciousness is lost in 
Christ-Consciousness, the life expresses the di- 
vine purpose, God's will becomes ours, and all 
the infinite treasures are ours. "All things are 
yours." The world needs such lives and the Holy 
Spirit through the truth can produce them. 

Soul Cure First, 
Not Denials 

Socrates uttered a great truth when he said, 
"If the head and body are to be well, you must 
begin by curing the soul." The Church is set to 
do this. Has she done it? She has tried. The 



CULTS AND ADHERENTS 67 

early Church did this work, but the secret has 
seemingly been lost. The Church will gradually 
get back to her real work of helping the whole 
man spiritually, mentally, and physically, and one 
great element in the helpfulness will be the heal- 
ing of man's ailments by changing his mental 
attitude and bringing him into vital relation with 
Jesus the Christ who has given laws to be ob- 
served and conditions to be utilized in recovering 
and perfecting man in every part of his nature. 
Many cults like Christian Science, New Thought, 
and other smaller organizations use one great 
element of power in bringing the mind into pos- 
itive healthful manifestation and into vital rela- 
tion with the Infinite Spirit — and that is sugges- 
tion. One serious difficulty is that some of them 
teach so many things that have no vital connec- 
tion with the effort to change the life, recover 
the health, and bring the power of the Spirit into 
a conscious realization of the individual person- 
ality. For instance, the denial of matter, pain, 
sin, sickness, and death are not essential in order 
to establish a normal and perfect relation to God 
mentally, spiritually, and physically. 

Cults and Adherents 

Disease can be and has been cured, the soul 
can be and has been awakened to new possibil- 
ities and realizations, the spiritual nature can be 
aroused to lay hold of spiritual truth and life and 



68 HEALING AND HELP 

manifest them without such denials and contra- 
dictions of the Scriptural teachings, and perver- 
sion of the truth for the sake of giving a sem- 
blance of authority to false teachings. The 
church is the best institution in the world, not- 
withstanding the imperfection of its members. 
Imperfect as they may be, they will stand a com- 
parison with the members of some other cults 
whose only recommendation is that they are pro- 
gressive (?) and whose practice is little less than 
refined selfishness. They refuse to lift a hand 
to help those in need and condemn them because 
they need charity. They say those people ought 
to help themselves. They do not consider the 
conditions over which the needy have not com- 
plete control. Then, too, it is deplorable that 
some of these cults have preyed on the Church 
and stolen her members by a species of proselyt- 
ing and piracy, and then they turn about and 
condemn the Church and boast of victory over 
it. It is a fact that nine-tenths of the people be- 
longing to the Christian Science organization 
have been members or attendants of Churches. 
Many of them became cold, indifferent and ir- 
regular in attendance at Church and out of curi- 
osity were led to attend some Christian Science 
meetings or lectures. Their curiosity was fur- 
ther aroused and by accepting and practicing 
optimistic suggestion and giving up the medi- 
cine bottle and ceasing to talk about themselves 



CHURCH BACK TO CHRIST 69 

continually, they commenced to think about 
' something else. A change of mental attitude oc- 
curred from a negative to a positive condition 
and they believed that it came from understand- 
ing and demonstrating (?) Christian Science 
teaching and hence joined that organization. 
They become so obsessed and hypnotized by 
those teachings that they will not hear, read, or 
think about anything else that may seem to be 
opposite to or unlike their teachings which they 
accept. 

Church Back to Christ 

The church must become more spiritual and 
less materialistic in thought and expression. She 
must get back to Christ and the teachings of the 
New Testament and carry them out in order to 
fulfill her mission and do the work that Christ 
intended her to do. She is to go into all the 
world and preach the gospel, disciple all nations, 
heal the sick, bring life to the spiritually dead, 
and restore man to his Lost Paradise of immedi- 
ate communion with and relationship to God. 

Causes of Disease 
and Accidents 

Disease and trouble result from disordered 
mental states, ignorance, or wilful violation of 
the laws of mind and nature, partial knowledge 
unwisely applied, inharmony in one's self or with 
others, and wrong habits. The change of these 



70 HEALING AND HELP 

conditions will help to establish health, harmony, 
and happiness. Suggestion in its manifold form 
(See "Suggestion: Its Law and Application", 
under classification) will change those conditions 
and secure a normal manifestation of life. Causes 
must be removed before effects will cease and 
effects will positively disappear when the causes 
are removed. Healing is an effect. The causes 
referred to above can be removed. A new men- 
tal, positive attitude is essential in removing ab- 
normal conditions when there is a mental ele- 
ment producing them. In accidents resulting in 
breaking or fracturing bones, rupturing muscles, 
or producing sprains or similar conditions, there 
must be a setting or binding and proper care so 
that nature through the vital forces of the body 
can heal and repair. There must be an exercise 
of good common sense in all abnormal conditions 
so that the proper care and use of means shall 
help to recover the sick, ailing or those in any 
abnormal condition. 

Practical Suggestions 

1. Mental attitude. A positive mental atti- 
tude is essential for both healer and patient. As 
a usual thing the latter lacks this. It is essential 
to the re-establishment of his health. One great 
principle which is central in all of Rousseau's 
writings, especially his educational contentions is 
that people ought to "return to nature". He did 



MAN DEPENDENT 71 

not mean to barbarism, but to obedience to law 
in its highest and lowest application. He recog- 
nized, as does all philosophy, that man is self- 
conscious and that he has a freedom of will in 
the choice of his conduct. 

Man Dependent 

Man realizes that he cannot live apart from 
God and that he is accountable to Him for his 
talents, time, and influence. A favorable and 
right attitude of mind will help him to live and 
act according to the highest laws that God has 
established for his thinking, loving and acting. 
"Our wills are ours, we know not how, 
Our wills are ours, to make them Thine." 

Conditions Helped 

We can unite our lives with God's life, pur- 
poses and thoughts and thus fulfill His plans and 
purposes in and through us. A positive attitude 
of mind gives control over self-consciousness, 
over sleeplesness, conditions in which we cannot 
forget ourselves ; over nervousness, which is fre- 
quently the result of loss of oneness with the 
great calm life of Nature and God. This men- 
tal attitude will permit at times mental non- 
resistance which will lead to relaxation and rest. 
When we cease fighting evil impulses and yield 
to good ones we commence to grow spiritually 
and in this condition God is waiting to help us. 



72 HEALING AND HELP 

The Secret of the Lord 

When we quietly turn in a positive way to 
God we open our hearts and believe, desire and. 
know Him. Then the Holy Spirit enters the life, 
speaks to us and through us, and reveals His will 
in us. Hence relaxation of body and mind is a 
condition of waiting, listening, and learning the 
secret of the Lord. 

Conditions Producing Change 

The nervous and self-confident may say and 
feel that it is impossible for them to relax. But 
discouragement, failure, and sickness will con- 
vince them that this must be done and when it 
is, a wonderful change will occur. Thoughts of 
possible help will enter the mind, and a quiet 
waiting, listening state will occur. Then it will 
seem as though they are listening to distant mu- 
sic and the change of mind will change the con- 
dition of the whole life and work a health trans- 
forming change in the body. Realize this in your- 
self and you will find rest of the mind and of the 
body ; enjoy it and then lead others to do the 
same and great blessings will come to you and 
to them. 

Holy Spirit Will Enter, 
Harmony Results 

The beneficial effect of the change wrought by 
the positive mental attitude is far-reaching. A 
good and profitable exercise is to sit for a half 



PRIVILEGE AND RELATION 73 

hour or longer, if you have the time, in a quiet, 
peaceful position, open the life and invite the 
Holy Spirit to come in. The results from doing 
this cannot be told. These results come to every 
part of the life. This leads to true worship 
which is conscious harmonizing of one's thoughts 
with the Divine thought. Our thoughts when in 
perfect harmony with God's lead us to ask for 
what we need and our desires both in heart and 
expression harmonize with the Infinite Will and 
that becomes an answered prayer. All thoughts 
out of harmony with God's law are destructive 
and unworshipful. Putting forth an effort to 
force the answer is a wrong and unwise method 
and is opposed to perfect trust in God. 

Privileges and 
Mutual Relation 

Relaxation is good and sometimes a strong 
self-assertion may be required to call forth a 
definite surrender of the life to God. The rea- 
son for this may be found in the divine right, as 
a son of God, to come boldly into God's pres- 
ence and claim the answer to His promise. There 
may be times when a positive denial may assist 
one. This may lead the mind to assert itself and 
drop the thought of pain, so that when we be- 
come silent, relaxation may occur and a quiet 
restful feeling may steal over the mind. Then 
we realize that God is revealing His mind to us 
and in us. 



74 HEALING AND HELP 

Soul and Body 

We must not forget that the body is not the 
person, but only a refractory servant which we 
must discipline. Knowing this and what it means 
we must make it obey. If the soul becomes obe- 
dient to the Divine Will, so that the Will may be 
expressed, the body can be brought into obedi- 
ence to the soul and express health, happiness, 
and harmony. All Omnipotence is back of you 
and will work through you if you are in har- 
mony with God. 

Headache Formula 

Take a headache as an illustration. One can 
ask God to take it away. If it does not go in 
answer to that request, then he may conclude 
that God is not willing to do so. But is it not 
better to conclude that he somehow resists God 
or that the lower self is resisting the higher self? 
Sit or lie down quietly and relax every muscle 
of the body and repeat these words believing 
what you say : "This headache is not in accord 
with God's will. I command the blood to go 
down from the brain to my hands and feet, which 
are cold. I insist and command this in the name 
of the Divine Will and it is done." If you be- 
lieve and make these suggestions forcibly in a 
quiet or audible form the treatment will be effec- 
tive and the hands and feet will become warm 
and the head cool. Hold a picture of this also. 



HEADACHE 75 

The Purpose of the Treat- 
ment and Another Form 

One can deny that he has a headache and for 
that matter a head, as some may, but there is no 
necessity for this. What is to be done is to 
equalize the circulation, get a good venous drain- 
age from the brain, equalize the nervous im- 
pulses and thus relieve the overworked centers 
and the headache will disappear. The healer 
ought to teach the patient how to relax and 
quietly hold the thought that the venous blood 
is flowing down out of the brain, that the ar- 
terial blood is flowing up into the brain, that the 
whole circulation is being equalized, that the 
headache is subsiding, and that sleep will follow. 
This is a simple matter, but most effective. The 
other series of suggestions given above can be 
supplemented by these: "This pain in my head 
is nothing but recuperative force at work setting 
right some disturbance; I will not resist the 
force, nor listen to the complaints of my nerves 
which tell me that the work is not agreeable. It 
is doing only good, and if I make no resistance, 
the pain will subside, the circulation and nerve 
force will equalize, a quiet, calm feeling will 
result, and sleep may follow. Non-resistance 
will remove the fear of pain and all the force of 
the body will work to remove the pain. The 
calm condition will let the mind turn quietly to 
the source of all life and help. By quiet and deep 



76 HEALING AND HELP 

breathing and by opening the life the Infinite 
Spirit will come in fully and I will abide in 'the 
secret place of the Most High and under the 
shadow of the Almighty.' " 

A Good Method With 
the Nervous 

There are so many people who are nervous. 
This condition seems to be growing at a rapid 
rate in this nation. The people are living at a 
fearful speed and the nervous system cannot 
stand the strain, so nervous wrecks are found in 
every walk of life. How to change that condi- 
tion and recover many of these cases is a great 
problem with physicians and healers today. It 
is hardly necessary to say that those in that con- 
dition must stop and rest a while or calamity 
will befall them. This is axiomatic. What to 
do with some of these cases is a puzzling prob- 
lem. The insane asylums and sanitariums are 
full of such cases, some getting better and some 
growing worse. Some of them can be helped 
and cured by physical and mental treatment, 
which will consist in making adjustments physi- 
cally and relieving tension on the physical organ- 
ism, and putting the mind in a positive attitude 
and bringing back the sick one into conscious 
realization of his vital relation to God. Some 
who are religious can be helped remarkably by 
good religious suggestions and prayer and by 



THINGS TO BE CHANGED 77 

getting a change of mental attitude in reference 
to many things. One good method to pursue is 
as follows : Have the patient enter the silence 
or lie down quietly for fifteen or thirty minutes 
twice a day. Tell him to think about God, His 
love, His presence, His enfolding peace, and to 
see these things entering the life and enwrapping 
him. Teach him how to get a picture of the 
soothing, quieting effect which this will have on 
the entire body and mental life. Teach him to 
think of God's presence until he can hold that 
thought for five or ten minutes. Teach him to 
think of this with joy and thankfulness believing 
that victory will come, and all nervousness will 
subside. Have him do this until he thoroughly 
relaxes every part of the body and breathes 
deeply. The whole being will expand and glow 
with a soothing influence pervading the whole 
nature. Nervousness will fade away and a quiet 
indescribable peace will take possession of the 
whole personality. 

Things to Be Changed 

Daily cares, sorrow, trouble, fear and worry 
can be conquered in like manner. Strength and 
victory coming in this way will abide in the life 
and annoyances will have no power to fret one. 
The serenity and quietness in such a one will 
have an effect on those associated with him or 
her and fewer disagreeable things will annoy and 



78 HEALING AND HELP 

disturb. The spiritual side of this truth and its 
application is the most important. For instance 
healing the soul will often lead to healing of the 
body. Cleansing the mind of all wrong think- 
ing and feeling will lift the whole body to a 
higher plane of life and action. 

Avoid Introspection — Have 
the Best Uppermost 

Morbid introspection lowers the higher thought 
and feeling and thus brings weakness, disap- 
pointment, and nervousness. It ought to be 
guardedly avoided. An honest look into one's 
life to learn its real condition, and to see things 
just as they are in relationship, is wholesome 
and helpful, but when that is done, the forces 
and helps are then to be used to make the life as 
it should be. Looking forward and not back- 
ward is to be cultivated. The best way to sup- 
plant evil is to do good, and to have goodness 
rule in the life ; the best way to get rid of dark- 
ness is to let in a flood of light. See your best 
self in the ascendancy, your noblest acts, best 
thoughts, and purest feelings occupying the 
whole manifestation and realm of your mind. 
Hold these things as supremely essential, dwell 
upon them mentally, and you will shortly notice 
a wonderful change in your whole life. Read 
biography, study the noblest characters you 
know, cultivate the highest virtues which you see 
in others, and be content with nothing that is not 
high and good. 



THE BEST EXAMPLE 79 

The Best Example 

The highest and best example to follow is Je- 
sus, the Christ. Put your ideals by His life and 
see how inferior yours are. Then by faith in 
Him, by studying His life and manifesting in 
your life His virtues, the results will be simply 
marvelous. Get a good ideal photograph of 
Christ and look at it, put it where you can see 
it when you awaken in the morning. These 
things will help you and prove uplifting and 
profitable to you spiritually, mentally and physi- 
cally. 

The Healer's Thought 

The healer's mind and thought have a great 
influence on the patient's mind. Newness of de- 
sire and thought are the beginning of a radical 
change in the patient's life. His thinking will be 
modified and his physical health will be restored 
if it has been lost. 

Children and Parents 

Children are quickly affected telepathically. 
This has been demonstrated again and again. 
They are telepathically en rapport with their 
parents and parents are also in the same condi- 
tion with them through love. The condition of 
the mind of the parents is often reflected by the 
children, inasmuch as this is so, if parents do 
not want their children to have a disease they 



80 HEALING AND HELP 

must not fear it or think about it. If a child- is 
sick and one wants it to recover speedily, a fear 
thought must not be held over it and worrying 
about the child being sick must be dismissed. A 
picture, as one holds the child in his arms, that 
God enfolds both in "His Everlasting Arms" will 
quiet and help. Seeing the Father helping and 
doing all He can to soothe and quiet the child, 
so that the great forces and powers which are 
manifested may have free course in its recovery, 
will assist greatly. A physician may thus help 
and bless in his words, tenderness, and assist- 
ance. 

Infinite Strength 

Remember that God's strength is infinite, all- 
present, all-knowing, and always the same, and 
it may be made one's own as soon as he trusts it. 
When that is done life will have a new meaning 
and God's glory will be a realization in the whole 
personality. 

Specific Methods 

This manual of treating the sick and those 
needing help will contain further instructions on 
specific methods of treating different kinds of 
troubles. 

God and Man 

God is the source of all life, love, wisdom, 
power, and health. Jesus came to reveal God 
and show man how he may have all these things 



GOD AND MAN 81 

in manifestation. Alan is a spiritual being mani- 
festing his spiritual and mental character 
through a physical organization by which he is 
adapted to his present environment. The three- 
fold manifestation of his mental life is supra- 
conscious, subconscious, and conscious, corre- 
sponding to his spirit, soul, and body. The spir- 
itual nature is one as is the mind, but these man- 
ifestations deal with man's life as manifested in 
different or overlapping spheres or planes of ac- 
tivity. The highest form of activity is the spir- 
itual, or supraconscious, where the spiritual na- 
ture sees, knows, and is vitally related to God 
or the Infinite Spirit. In this sphere there is a 
full and complete revelation of God's life, love, 
wisdom, power, and health which man's spirit- 
ual nature may intuitively and by spiritual re- 
ceptivity receive, appropriate, and pass on to 
others. The power and possibility of this part 
of man's nature is illimitable in manifestation be- 
cause the source of supply is infinite and its po- 
tentiality is unbounded because it is from God's 
nature and therefore God's image in man. The 
soul or subconscious manifestation has similar 
characteristics because it is an outgrowth of the 
supraconscious in man. There are some extra- 
ordinary powers or characteristics found in the 
subconscious by which man gains knowledge, 
carries on his physical functions, intellectual 
processes, and involuntary activities, and mani- 



82 HEALING AND HELP 

fests at times remarkable phenomena. The con- 
scious operations of man's physical nature con- 
trols all voluntary bodily activity, conscious 
processes of reasoning, conscious affection, and 
conscious volition, and interprets many things 
that help man to adapt himself to this environ- 
ment in order to be comfortable, happy, and 
healthly. A time will come when man shall not 
need this manifestation because the environ- 
ment will be different. Man's highest psychical 
and spiritual nature has in it all the powers and 
characteristics necessary for his eternal exist- 
ence, love, wisdom, happiness, health, and power. 
Alan, as to his essential nature, that is, the na- 
ture that survives all change, is an expression of 
God and one with Him in life, intellect, and vo- 
lition. Man is not and cannot be in this life nor 
in the life to come independent of God. 

Harmony — Fear Is Disharmony 

Harmony comes into the life and in all the 
things that are Godlike in us, when our nature 
is co-ordinated with God ; that is, when the spir- 
itual or supraconscious, and the psychical or sub- 
conscious, and the conscious life and mind are 
open channels for the expression of God's life, 
love, wisdom, power and health. Disharmony re- 
sults when the channels are partially closed by 
selfishness and carnality, a wrong spiritual and 
mental attitude and perversion of will power. 



THE WORD MADE FLESH 83 

God always desires open channels for the reve- 
lation and manifestation of His life, nature, and 
purposes. God has never given the spirit of 
fear, anxiety, and hatred. These are results of 
inharmony. God offers perfect love which casts 
these things out of the nature. He even sent 
Jesus to show the life and power of harmony, 
to show how man can get into that state and 
manifest it continually. 

Affirmations 

Man can impress his mind with those things of 
God's nature in such a way as to bring a realiza- 
tion of them into his life. He can say, "I am love, 
for God is love and dwells in me. I am under- 
standing, for God is understanding and reveals 
Himself to me. I am peace, for God is peace and 
abides in me. I am health, for God is health and 
gives Himself to me." To affirm and claim these 
and other things mentally and spiritually brings a 
realization of them into the very center of the life 
and establishes a positive activity that brings 
harmony into the whole personality. 

The Word Made Flesh 

Perfect spirit, perfect mind, and perfect being 
are infinite and claiming the same brings harmony 
of life, affection, thought, and conduct into man's 
life. Then I have nothing to fear because I come 
into contact with and am filled with the life of 



84 HEALING AND HELP 

God which is perfect love. So of pain, disease, 
weakness, ignorance, — all are met by His perfec- 
tion of comfort, health, strength, knowledge. 
"God's word" stands for God's idea, for the word 
holds the idea that becomes power in so many 
ways. There is no magic power in a word to 
bring harmony between the soul and God, but 
there is power in the idea, the mental force, the 
truth which the word expresses. To stop with 
the word is to exercise a spirit of superstition. 
As the spirit of man gets the idea that God reveals 
and then expresses it, his words will be powerful 
for good and helpful to others. The Word of 
God — the Bible — contains God's ideas, a spiritual 
force and the truth, whilst Jesus, the "Word made 
flesh," expresses and manifests God. "He is the 
way, the truth, the life." The latter shows us 
God in action, as well as in thinking, the former 
shows us God in thinking, and in His purposes. 
Both are necessary and supplement each other in 
order to make a permanent revelation with 
authority and presenting principles which can be 
proven true in the lives of men and women. 

Healing Taught in 
God's Word 

Take the matter of healing as an illustration. 
God has promised to heal and to deliver from 
evil. The idea, the spiritual force, and the truth 
manifested are found also in the promise. His 



MEANS 85 

omnipotence, omnipresence, and His omniscience 
— His all-power, His all-presence, His all-know- 
ledge can make His promises true and are the 
basis of all help for man. Jesus comes as the 
expressed "Word of God" in the flesh, teaching 
the same thing with authority and carrying out 
God's idea, spiritual force and His truth as an 
actual realization in His own life and in the lives 
of others. That is why He commanded His dis- 
ciples and others to heal the sick and bring help 
to the needy. There is no statement in the Scrip- 
tures that healing should be discontinued. The 
same God, the same spiritual, mental, and phys- 
ical constitution in man, the same necessity in the 
world, the same enabling Spirit, the same princi- 
ples for use, and the same power to help are all 
arguments against the abrogation of these teach- 
ings and commands of Christ. 



The efforts to heal disease by the use of spir- 
itual and mental principles and teachings, by the 
use of the more recent teachings of psychology, 
and by the use of means that are being more and 
more recognized, such as sanitation, the empha- 
sis laid on optimistic thought and principles as a 
help to vital activity in the organs of the body 
through a more vigorous circulation and nerve 
activity, and the many verified cases of healing 
resulting from the use of these principles and 



86 HEALING AND HELP 

teachings lead many progressive preachers, stu- 
dents and Bible readers to the conviction that the 
command of Christ to heal the sick is just as 
binding today as in the time when He lived on 
earth. 

Measures Most Effective 

Hygienic measures and at times the use of me- 
chanical and manipulative methods may be useful, 
and with the use of the various forms of mental 
and spiritual suggestion may be efficiently and 
effectively used. Spiritual teachings and sugges- 
tions are the most powerful, if they call into play 
the supra- and subconscious manifestations of the 
mind, by which the whole personality is reached 
and affected. Jesus used means at times, prob- 
ably to help the faith of those to be healed, but as 
a usual rule He used spiritual suggestions bring- 
ing the soul into relation with the Infinite Source 
of life and health. Faith, love, hope, and accep- 
tance of the truth may all be used as means of 
bringing the one needing healing into definite 
relation with God and allowing His energy and 
health to become the life and health of the afflict- 
ed one. 

Conditions and Results 

A positive consciousness of God's presence in- 
dwelling the spirit of man, and man's spirit dwell- 
ing in God, the silence that permits a complete 



ATTITUDE OF MIND 87 

relaxation, and quietly listening and waiting; the 
realization through the exercise of faith toward 
God and claiming the fulfilment of His promises 
and the revelation of Himself will produce results 
in man's spiritual, mental, and physical nature 
that almost look like miracles. The results come 
from the use of laws which Jesus knew perfectly 
and gave in His teachings, laws by which He ac- 
complished His wonderful results in healing and 
helping the people. 

Attitude of Mind 

One thing must be emphasized over and over 
again, that is, that God is the ultimate source of 
all life, mind, love, help, and strength. We must 
acknowledge this and manifest our gratitude to 
Him for these and all other things that we pos- 
sess, use, and enjoy. We ought to be receptive 
and active in the manifestation of our gratitude, 
for what we accept and what we do will influence 
our lives and the lives of others. Our mental 
power through the vital forces controls all the 
organs and functions of our bodily organism and 
the mental attitude which we hold and the sug- 
gestions which we receive and carry out will 
determine our condition mentally, physically, and 
spiritually. This attitude of mind will also de- 
termine our relation to God and His manifesta- 
tion in and through us on other lives. These 
things must be remembered and practiced in or- 



88 HEALING AND HELP 

cler that one shall be able to heal and help others. 
Christ enters the life through faith ; expresses 
Himself, helps, and heals others through faith. 
These things are vital, essential, and verifiable. 

Health 

One's individual power is to be used as an in- 
strument through which God works and one's 
personality is an agent to impart instruction and 
help to the afflicted and those in need. The possi- 
bility of health is in everyone by virtue of his 
creation and it will work out if hindrances are re- 
moved. Nature and the soul must have a chance 
to assert themselves. Health, like salvation, is to 
be worked out because God works in. Jesus said, 
"Of myself I can do nothing," "The Father works 
and I work," and when the wisdom, power, and 
health of the Spirit are manifested from one to 
another or in one's self there will be a normal, 
healthy, happy, victorious life. 

Reality — Truth — Jesus 
Did Not Make Denials — 
Effects Not Causes 

No human being can heal the diseased, but each 
one can use the truth which is the instrument of 
healing. Faith in God, belief of the truth, and 
using it will bring healing and health to the sick 
and those in need. So many persons are governed 
by appearances and feelings, and as these things 
vary, so will be the condition of those persons. 



KNOW AND PRACTICE TRUTH 89 

There is a truth of stability, of an essential, un- 
changing life that we must see and deal with, 
allowing appearances and feelings to vary as they 
may. One must know and practice truth in order 
to reach the real life and hold it in unchanging 
reality. The practicing of the truth makes one 
truthful and assists in the recovery of the sick and 
needy. Speaking, living, and showing the truth 
makes one expert in the use of the truth. Whilst 
evil is not a reality like good, yet it is an actuality 
that must be dealt with by us in this environ- 
ment. We cannot deny it away, but we can resist, 
master, and through suffering put it away. A 
denial does not destroy or annihilate the thing 
denied, but in affirmation we substitute some- 
thing better. Jesus did not deny evil, but substi- 
tuted something better; He resisted it, mastered 
it, and put it away through suffering. He did not 
deny sickness, sin, or death, but met these things 
with health, holiness, and life. When people talk 
about the all-good they forget that "good" has a 
"better" and a "best," hence the word "good" 
does not mean God any more than sunlight means 
the sun. The sun is the cause of sunlight and 
God is the cause of good, but the effects are not 
the causes. It is a perversion of language to say 
Good is God because God is good. It is not true 
and we want to know the truth, do the truth, and 
have fellowship with the truth. 



90 HEALING AND HELP 

Important Statements 

God is omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient. 
I exist; I live; I have a vital relation to God. I 
can know Him and the truth and that knowledge 
brings me in vital relation with the one life of this 
universe. That life is eternal, changeless, per- 
fect, for it is the life of God. 

Personality of God 

Jesus said, "I am the resurrection and the life," 
and knowing Him in His revelation of God is to 
know the truth, wisdom, health, and power of 
God spiritually, mentally, and physically. God is 
a personal being; self-conscious, self-determina- 
tive, knowing, loving, and acting in the most per- 
fect way and offering life, health, and goodness to 
all. God is spirit and I am a spirit because He 
made me. The spirit has a body through which 
it manifests. That body may and does get out 
of order and by certain processes physical, men- 
tal, and spiritual it can be brought into harmony 
with the spiritual part of our nature and be 
restored into harmony of action which results in 
health. 

Sciences Useful 

The therapeutic principles of Scripture, psy- 
chology, the sciences of anatomy, physiology 
and hygiene, the teachings of the best phil- 
osophy are of untold value to humanity and 



NEW TESTAMENT CASES 91 

ought to be used and applied in order to secure 
the best results for the whole personality. 

Some New Testament Cases 

Some Instances of Healing in the New Testament 
There are many notable cases of healing by 
Jesus given in the New Testament. He healed 
leprosy (Luke XVII;11-19); deformity (Luke 
XIII;11-17); fever (Luke IV:38-39); blindness 
(Matt. IX:27-31) ; hemorrhage (Matt. IX :20-22) ; 
violence and insanity (Mark V :l-20) ; dropsy 
(Luke XIV:2-4); epilepsy (Mark IXT4-29). 
These are a few cases given in the Gospels, but 
are typical of the healings which Jesus performed. 

Dead Raised 

Jesus also raised the dead : Jairus' daughter 
(Luke VIII :41-56) ; the widow's son (Luke VII : 
11-15) ; Lazarus, dead four days, (John XI;l-44). 
He did this work by touch and by command. 

Disciples' Works 

The disciples wrought many signs and won- 
ders (Acts V:12) ; Peter healed a lame man (Acts 
III :2-8) ; he also healed Aeneas of paralysis 
(Acts IX :32-35) ; he raised Dorcas from death 
(Acts IX:36-41); Paul healed a cripple (Acts 
XIV:8-10); he healed Publius' father of fever 
(Acts XXVIII :8) ; he raised Eutychus to life 
(Acts XX :9-12) ; he healed himself of the bite of 
the poisonous serpent (Acts XXVIII :3-6). Phil- 



92 HEALING AND HELP 

ip healed insanity, paralysis, and lameness (Acts 
VIII :7). The seventy told Jesus that "even the 
devils are subject unto us through Thy name." 

Different Methods 

There are twenty-six accounts of healing, re- 
corded in the Gospels, which were performed by 
Jesus. Some give the account without stating 
what He said or did, as in the cases of the de- 
moniac at Capernaum, the dropsical man at Jeru- 
salem, and the healing of the blind demoniac in 
Galilee. Some He healed at a distance — telepath- 
ically — as the nobleman's son, the Syrophoeni- 
cian's daughter, and the centurion's servant. He 
spoke to some, as the woman with the issue of 
blood. He commanded some to do something, as 
the blind man that He told to go to the Pool of 
Siloam and wash. Some He talked with before 
healing them. Some He spoke to and touched, 
as blind men and lepers. He sometimes uttered a 
command to the disease or demons as in the case 
of the child at the foot of the Mount of Transfig- 
uration. Sometimes He commanded and touched, 
as the deaf and dumb, the man of Decapolis, and 
some of the dead whom He raised. 

Deductions. 1. Some of the cases cured repre- 
sented nervous troubles. Jesus talked to them 
without mentioning the trouble, whilst on others 
He laid His hands. 



LAW OF SUGGESTION 93 

2. Jesus uttered words and touched the blind 
eyes. 

3. In demon possession Jesus uttered a direct 
command to the disease. 

4. In severe, dangerous, and fatal cases Jesus 
used a terse, forceful method of speaking, e. g., 
"Talithi Cuum," "Lazarus, hither come!" 

The Law of Suggestion 
and Its Use 

Jesus healed and restored by word, look, com- 
mand, touch, laying on of hands, and suggestion. 
The last term takes in all of the others, for those 
who were helped, healed, and restored accepted 
the suggestion, interpreted it aright, and recov- 
ered. Suggestion was the main thing carrying 
the power of the personality, the method of giv- 
ing it was incidental. Jesus used no one formula 
nor parrotlike words, as though no others would 
do, but used the words and acts that were perti- 
nent to the case. In serious and fatal illness Jesus 
emphasized, by the power of His voice and touch, 
the suggestion given. He had a consciousness of 
the Father's presence and that the Father was 
working through Him. That power was mani- 
fested through the suggestion, the touch, or com- 
mand. It is a recognized law of mind that if a 
therapeutic suggestion is effectively lodged in the 
mind, which controls the vital functions of the 
body, that there will be a recovery to a normal, 
and healthy condition, if an abnormal state ob- 



94 HEALING AND HELP 

tains. The exercise of faith on the part of the 
afflicted is also an aid to a more rapid recovery. 
The more perfect this confidence and faith, the 
more speedy the restoration. Some persons can 
more effectively make suggestions than others. 
Jesus, being perfect, had this remarkable faculty 
perfectly manifested in His life. Those follow- 
ing Him sincerely, living pure lives, and loving 
humanity sincerely can greatly help their fellow- 
men. John Wesley, George Whitefield, Charles 
Spurgeon, Moody, and many others are illustra- 
tions of this. If the healer is good, true, and pure, 
he will have great power and accomplish more 
by his suggestions than otherwise. 

A Psychic Force 

There is a psychic force or influence in every- 
one, latent in many, but potentially under the 
control of the will. It is an immanent, intelligent 
force which can be used in helping those in need. 
One with a strong will, which he can concentrate 
quickly and forcibly, in a measure controls this 
psychic force and makes the most perfect healer. 

Jesus the Healer 

Jesus was the ideal of all because His confi- 
dence in God was unshaken and undisturbed ; His 
concentration unhindered by distraction or inter- 
ference, and His control of the psychic force un- 
limited. 



CHRIST'S HEALING METHOD 95 



Ideal Patient 

The ideal patient is one who desires help and 
has an open and receptive mind and is free from 
adverse or antagonistic suggestions from his own 
mind or the minds of others. 

Scripture References 

The testimony of Luke 6:19 is quite suggest- 
ive. "And all the multitude sought to touch Him 
for power (dynamis, force) came from Him and 
healed them all." Also Luke 8:46. "Some one 
did touch me, for I perceive that power (dynamis, 
force) had gone forth from me." Luke 5 :\7. 
"And the power (dynamis, force) of the Lord was 
with Him to heal." There are fifteen detailed 
accounts recorded in the Gospels of direct heal- 
ing of physical infirmities, of which eleven show 
physical contact or touch in various forms. Other 
cases were cured telepathically. This faith in 
Jesus by the afflicted or by those near to the 
afflicted in relation or sympathy wrought the 
cure. "According to thy faith." Christ healed 
through faith in Him. 

Disciples' Failure 

Jesus was en rapport with the source of all 
power as all may be if they will. He was a perfect 
embodiment and manifestation of this relation- 
ship, which no man is in this environment. The 



96 HEALING AND HELP 

failure of His disciples was due to a lack of im- 
plicit confidence in this vital relation and not us- 
ing the psychic force implicitly as a fact. There 
was lack of faith, open-mindedness, not letting go 
of the earthly or material thought, and not taking 
hold of heaven. This is illustrated by fasting 
and prayer. If the healing costs you nothing to 
give it, it is worth very little to the afflicted one. 
One's life in vital relation to the Infinite Spirit 
is the most effective condition for preaching, 
teaching, helping, and healing. 

Affirmations Helpful 

Affirmations are a great help to the mind in 
realizing strength for the whole personality. 
They ought to be reasonable, spiritual, and defi- 
nite. The following affirmations are examples 
and they can be modified, changed, or substituted 
by others which may be just as effective and bet- 
ter adapted to the condition of the healer and 
the one to be helped. 

Affirmations 
I am a spiritual being with a body, through 
which I can express myself. I will manifest love, 
wisdom, power, purity, and truth for these are 
Godlike characteristics. I am love, understand- 
ing, power, life, and the likeness of God. I am 
fearless, healthy, and full of peace. I will exer- 
cise positive conditions and I will have a good 



AFFIRMATIONS 97 

feeling for everybody. All negative states like 
worry, fear, sickness, weakness will leave me 
now. I am peaceful and well. I am strong. I 
am at peace with God and man. "I can do all 
things through Christ who strengthened me." 
God works in and through me to do His will. I 
am free, "for the law of the Spirit of life in 
Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of 
sin and death." 

I am free from weakness and fear. 

I am free from selfishness and desire to do 
wrong. 

I am free from sin, sickness, and death through 

Christ Jesus. 
I am free from doubt and uncertainty for the 

truth makes me free. 
Love is the truth in me in manifestation. 
Health is the truth in me in holiness. 
Strength is the truth in me in power. 
Peace is the truth in me in quietness and rest. 
Knowledge of God's word is the truth in me 

for help and helping others. 
Freedom is the truth in me because Christ is 

in me. 
I live and shall live because Christ lives in me. 
I shall never die because Christ has arisen 

from the dead. 



} HEALING AND HELP 

I am immortal. 

I am made in God's image and have person- 
ality. 

I am an expression of God, but desire to be 
that perfectly. 

I desire to be harmonious in my whole nature. 

There is but one mind and I am an expression 
of that. 

There is but one life and I am part of that. 

There is but one truth and I desire to know 
and show that. 

There is but one God and Father of all, who 
is above all, and through all, and in all. 

I am conscious of God's indwelling presence, 
and I have peace, purity, and power. 

God fills my whole personality with Himself. 



One Affirmation Only 
at a Time 

These affirmations are useful in times of quiet 
meditation. Use only one at each time of medi- 
tation, and repeat it over and over, hold it in 
your mind and affirm its power and influence in 
your life. When it is gripped by and gets into 
your soul and spirit, great results will follow and 
you will be prepared to help others. 



REALIZATION OF POWER 99 

They Unify Thought 
And Are Prayers 

Affirmations may be and can be made prayers. 
They must be given in a positive and determined 
conviction that they will be realized in the whole 
personality. They can be given audibly or men- 
tally. Those affirmations given above are only 
examples. You can frame some of your own, 
or if you find in articles or books some that ap- 
peal to you, take them and use them. Do not 
use more than one at a time unless they carry 
the same thought. Unifying the thought causes 
it to grip the mind and to be gripped by it. The 
mind, the subconscious phase of it, will not 
work on two contrary thoughts. If you want to 
get the best results in realization, therapeuti- 
cally, spiritually, and mentally, have only one 
subject or thought and bring everything into rela- 
tion to that and concentrate the mind on that. 

Realization of 
Power Illustrated 

Take the thought and desire to have a reali- 
zation of power, as an illustration. There is 
power in yourself because God has placed it in 
you, then there is power all about you because 
He is present with you. You can use the power 
within and without because you are in vital re- 
lation with Him. You can manifest the power 
by obeying the law of right thinking, right 
speaking and right acting. You can govern your 



100 HEALING AND HELP 

thoughts, your words, your actions. You can have 
all the power you can use aright. Recognizing this 
power, using it aright brings a realization of it. 
"I can do all things through Christ who strength- 
ened me." Bad habits, abnormal conditions, 
wrong thinking, and wrong acting can be 
changed by using this power wisely, lovingly, 
and positively. The power within and without 
is perfect, and if there is failure — there need not 
be — it is due to the imperfect manifestation of 
the power or lack of faith in the one through 
whom the power works. 

Appearances and Feelings Vary; 
Truth Abides 

The realization of power does not depend on 
certain appearances, nor on one's feelings, nor 
on what others say or think, but on an openness 
of the mind to the truth through which power is 
manifested. Falseness, weakness, and insincer- 
ity all close the mind and hinder the realization 
and manifestation of power. A frog in a water 
pipe stopped the flow in the house, and the things 
referred to above will as certainly stop the in- 
coming of power. The life must be true, open and 
sincere. Jesus had the fullness of the Spirit and 
that is why He could do what He did. The more 
spiritual you are the greater will be your power 
in making effective suggestions and living the 
life of helpfulness. 



SPECIAL GIFTS 101 

Here are some Scriptures which may be help- 
fully used when talking- to the ailing and those 
needing help. It will be well to have these writ- 
ten out in a little book, so that you can refer to 
them at once with the references. 

Strength 

Ps. 18:1-2. Ps. 20:1-2. Ps. 37:39. Ps. 41:2-3. 
Isa. 26:3-4. Isa. 40:28-31. Job 17:9. Ps. 93:1, 
Ps. 96:6. Ps. 118:14. Daniel 10:18-19. Ps. 
138:3. Phil. 4:13. Ps. 84:5-7. Isa. 26:4. Ps. 
103:1-5. 

Peace 

Ps. 29:11. Isa. 26:3; 32:17, 18-19. Ps. 34:14, 
37; 11,37:37. Ps. 147:14. Col. 3:15. Lev. 26:6. 
Rom. 14:17-19. John 14:27. John 16:33. Ps. 
119:165. Phil. 4:7: Ps. 1:1-2. Ps. 2:12. Ps. 
32:1-2. Ps. 84:4-5. Ps. 106:3. Ps. 119:1-2. Use 
the word "happy" for the word "blessed," for 
that is what it is in the original. Ps. 128:1. Ps. 
146:5. John 13:17. Prov. 16:20, 8 :32-35. Prov. 
15:13, 15:15, 3:13, 17:22. Ps. 144:15. Matt. 5:3-9. 
Jas. 5:11. Prov. 29:18. Rev. 22:14. 

Special Gifts by the Spirit 

I Cor. 12:7-11. Each one is given the mani- 
festation of the Spirit to profit withal. 
To one is given the word of wisdom. 
To another is given the word of knowledge. 



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To another, faith. 

To another, gifts of healing. 

To another, workings of powers. 

To another, discerning of spirits. 

To another, different kinds of tongues. 

To another, the interpretation of tongues. 

Healing 

Old Testament Accounts 

References given here can be verified in the 
Scriptures and will make a profitable study on 
healing before Jesus' time on earth. 

Prayer and Healing 

Gen. 20:17. — God heals through agencies. 
Exodus IS :26. — Forgetfulness of God leads us 
to reap as we sow according to His laws. Exo- 
dus 23 :25. — Obedience to God's laws of health 
will bring health, disobedience will bring 
sickness, sorrow and death. I Kings 13 :4-6. — 
The withered hand cured. Jesus also cured one. 
2 Kings 5 :1-14. — Obedience required. 2 Kings 
20:5.— Hezekiah healed. 2 Chron. 16:11-13.— 
King Asa went to the wrong person, v. 13. 1 
Kings 17:17-24. 2 Kings 4:18-37. Elijah and 
Elisha raised the dead. These are all Old Testa- 
ment records of healing presenting the source, 
agencies, and methods. Read and study them 
carefully and prayerfully with New Testament 
cases. 



TRUTH ALWAYS THE SAME 103 

Important New Testament 
Scripture 

Scriptures that can be used for the purpose of 
realizing what we pray for are Mark 11 :24 (Rev. 
Ver.) and 1 John 5:14-15. Memorize and medi- 
tate on these verses as they are very important. 
Realize the truth of them. 

Truth Always the Same 

Truth is always the same and will be so eter- 
nally. It corresponds to reality which belongs 
to God's nature and which is eternal and change- 
less. So, also, is truth. Some people talk and 
act as though their affirmations and denials could 
make or destroy truth. This cannot be done. 
Reality, like truth, is permanent. 2 Cor. 4:18. 
"For the things which are seen are temporal ; 
but the things which are not seen are eternal." 
Truth is related to the unseen and the eternal. 
therefore is real. The truth of everything is God. 
He is the one and only Presence, Reality, Sub- 
stance, Truth, Life, Love, and Mind. Can one's 
belief, thought, opinion, or statements destroy or 
change God? No, neither can they change those 
things that belong to God's nature. The Scrip- 
tural method then is not to seek things that 
change, but the unchanging things and God Him- 
self. "Seek first the kingdom of God and His 
righteousness and all necessary things shall be 
added unto you." Hence the secret of continued 



104 HEALING AND HELP 

health, happiness, success, and all things neces- 
sary to one for time and eternity is to have a 
consciousness of oneness with God. 

Faith Vitally Connects 
Us With Christ 

Two paths are open to this experience. The 
first is faith which brings one into vital connec- 
tion with Jesus Christ. This is made plainer 
from a Scriptural point of view by taking the 
words "Believe on" and read "Believe into." For 
example, John 3:16 — "Whosoever believeth on 
(into) Him" etc. Also John 1:12 and 3:36. 
1 John 5:10 — Jesus Christ was the way, the 
truth, and the life concretely presented before 
the world for acceptance. He is not only our ex- 
ample but the hope of glory in us and through 
us to others and we establish and come into vital 
relation with Him through faith. 

Prayer 

The second path is prayer. That may include 
affirmations, aspirations, and practicing the 
truth. These lead to understanding and realiz- 
ing our relation to God. This brings inspiration 
and power, harmony and a realization of God 
working in us and through us. 

Conditions 

Practicing God's Presence 

1. Contemplation of God prepares one to pray 



PRAYER 105 

in accord with His will and thus secure an an- 
swer. Brother Lawrence, who "practiced the 
Presence of God," reached a high degree of spir- 
itual power in this way. This was also true of 
St. Francis of Assisi and others. 

Meditation 

2. Meditation on God is another spiritual ex- 
ercise which is neglected today. Contemplation 
is "looking attentively" at God; meditation is 
"considering thoroughly" God and His love. 
This leads to "life eternal" which is to know the 
only true God and Jesus Christ whom He has 
sent. (John 17:3.) 

Affirmation 

3. Affirmation of the truth, claiming spirit- 
uality and freedom from sin, sickness, worry, 
fear, and trouble through Christ. 

Prayer 

4. Prayer, audible or silent, in which one 
holds to the answer received. "All things what- 
soever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye have 
received them, and ye shall have them." (Mark 
11:24. Rev. Ver.) 

Prayer — What It Does 

"More things are wrought by prayer than this 
world dreams of." The realization of our one- 
ness with God's will (1 John 5:14-15) leads to a 



106 HEALING AND HELP 

complete consecration to God in which there is 
a conscious knowing- that we live in Him and He 
in us. We get above the material and see and 
know the spiritual realities. We live, act, under- 
stand, and feel in the realization of this spiritual 
reality. Robert Browning says : 

"I knew, I felt — what God is, what we are, 
What life is — how God tastes an infinite joy 
In infinite ways — one everlasting bliss, 
From whom all being emanates, all power 
Proceeds; in whom is life evermore." 

Suggestion 

The prayers and affirmations which follow are 
brief and can be used as they are, or others may 
be substituted or framed to meet the necessities 
of the case to be helped. Silent prayer is always 
very quieting to the nervous and is very help- 
ful to many persons. Use it frequently with 
mental suggestion that the needy one will re- 
cover and visualize a normal condition as you 
silently suggest health and pray. Hold the pic- 
ture of health in your mind vividly until the sub- 
ject gets the thought in his or her mind. 

With Thee My God 

"I would commune with Thee, my God ; 
E'en to Thy seat I come ; 
I leave my joys, I leave my cares, 
And seek in Thee my home. 



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"I stand upon the mount of God, 
With sunlight in my soul ; 
I hear the storms in vales beneath, 
I hear the thunders roll. 

"But I am calm with Thee, my God, 
Beneath these glorious skies ; 
And to the height on which I stand 
Nor storms nor clouds can rise. 

"Oh, this is life; Oh! this is joy! 
My God, to find Thee so! 
Thy face to see, Thy voice to hear ; 
And all Thy love to know. 

PRAYERS 

For Faith 

We know Thee, O Lord, we believe Thee, we 
trust Thee implicitly, and taking Thee at Thy 
word, we are kept by Thy power through faith 
unto salvation. Our faith is tried, but it holds 
because anchored in the Rock of Ages. No 
storms can break the cable or anchor, and this 
leads us to rejoice with joy unspeakable. In- 
crease our faith more and more. We are saved 
by grace through faith and we rejoice that it is 
not by works, lest we boast. May Christ dwell 
in our hearts by faith. He has reconciled us to 
God and with joy unspeakable we praise His 
name. Our Father, may we remain steadfast un- 



108 HEALING AND HELP 

to the end of life so that when we fall asleep in 
Jesus it shall be to awaken in His likeness. 

Meditation and Affirmations 

"Say to them that are of a fearful heart, be 
strong, fear not." "I am one with God through 
faith in Christ. I love God with all my heart." 
(Isa. 35:4.) Perfect love casteth out (all) fear. 
I am strong, fearless, and courageous. Nothing 
can separate me from the Love of God. I am 
victorious, masterful, and free from all fear 
through faith in Christ. I believe, realize, and 
manifest truth in my life and in all my actions. 
My faith is strong, uplifting, victorious. 

A Prayer of Realization 

"God is my help in every need, 
God does my every hunger feed. 
God walks beside me, guides my way, 
Through every moment of this day. 
I now am wise, I now am true, 
Patient, kind, and loving, too ; 
All things I am, can do, and be, 
Through Christ, the truth that is in me. 
Christ healeth me if I be sick, 
Christ is my strength, unfailing, quick; 
Christ is my all, I know no fear, 
Since Love, and Truth, and Peace are here" 

Pray — meditate — realize. 



WISDOM 109 

For Wisdom 

We thank Thee, Our Father, for Thy word 
and its teaching. If we lack wisdom, if we ask 
of Thee, Thou wilt give it liberally and upbraid 
not. We need it, we desire it, Thou hast prom- 
ised it, and we claim it. Help us to hold the 
promise in mind, picture it as a present posses- 
sion, and realize it as an actual fact. Give us 
that wisdom which is at first pure, then peace- 
able, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of 
mercy and good fruits, without partiality and 
without hypocrisy. Help us to use our Knowl- 
edge aright, which is wisdom in action. Fill us 
with the knowledge of Thy will in all wisdom 
and spiritual understanding. May we in all our 
getting get wisdom and understanding. We ask 
these things in the name of Jesus Christ, our 
Lord. Amen. 

Meditation 

"The mouth of the righteous speaketh wis- 
dom." (Ps. 37:30.) Wisdom is the right use of 
knowledge and the truth. Righteousness is 
thinking, speaking, and acting right. The Spirit 
helps and leads into all truth and helps us to 
think, speak, and act righteously. Folly is the 
foolishness of ignorance ; wisdom is the right 
use and product of the truth. If the heart is pure 
and right and the mind thinks righteously then 
our lives will be filled with wisdom and our acts 
will be an index of our lives. 



110 HEALING AND HELP 

Affirmation 

I am pure in heart, my thoughts are true, and 
my words and actions are wise and noble. 

Pray — meditate — realize. 

For Joy 

Our Father, may our joy be full because we 
have received Jesus Christ as our life. Help us 
to serve Thee with joyfulness and gladness of 
heart. May we rejoice evermore and give thanks 
unto Thee for everything. Make us cheerful be- 
cause of Thy presence. Help us to lift up our 
hearts to Thee in joyous praise and manifest 
Thine indwelling presence, like sunlight, so that 
others may feel the warmth and tenderness of 
Thy joy within us. May this gladness make the 
sorrowing and depressed rejoice with us and for- 
get those things in Thy love for Jesus' sake. 

Meditation and Affirmation 

Be filled with the Spirit, speaking to your- 
selves in psalms and spiritual songs, singing and 
making melody in your heart to the Lord. (Eph. 
5:18-19.) I keep my heart open for the infilling 
of the Infinite Spirit. He imparts the nature of 
God which is love from which comes joy, peace, 
long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 
meekness, self-control, and these are the fruit 
of the Spirit, I am thinking of God and I shall 



FORGETTING THE PAST 111 

think of Him in every relation of life, for He is 
the great Reality. My meditation of Him shall 
be sweet and great joy I have in this contempla- 
tion of Him, His love and goodness. 

Pray — meditate — realize. 

For Forgetting the Things Behind 

Our Father, we would forget the things that 
are behind and press toward the mark of our high 
calling which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord, and 
look unto Him who is the author and finisher of 
our faith. We need to forget our sins, because 
Thou dost not remember them against us, and 
Thou hast cast them into the depths of the sea 
of oblivion, so help us to let them remain there. 
Make us perfect to do Thy will and seek those 
things which are above for Thy name sake. 
Amen. 

Meditation 

"I am He that blotteth out thy transgressions 
for my own sake, and will not remember Thy 
sins." God forgives and so must we by for- 
getting. I do forgive and forget injuries, false 
things said against me, and unpleasant things 
that have come to me. I am made free from sin, 
worry, fear, and have my fruit unto holiness. I 
forgive and forget in order to have forgiveness 
and go forward free and happy into the future to 
help and bless others. 



112 HEALING AND HELP 

Affirmation 

God helps, forgives, and blesses, and I shall do 
the same, because I love Him and desire to do 
His will. I will try and develop a Christlike dis- 
position by loving all persons and doing good to 
them, I will always tell the good things I know 
of others and never the bad ones. 

Pray — meditate — realize. 

For Peace 

Our Father, Thou art a God of peace. Thou 
art merciful toward our faults and war-like na- 
tures. Thou art slow to anger and full of kind- 
ness. Being justified by faith, we have peace 
with Thee through Jesus Christ, our Lord. May 
the work of Thy will in us bring perfect peace 
to those whose minds are stayed on Thee be- 
cause they trust in Thee. Help us to be peace- 
ful in every relation of life, and be peacemakers 
that we may be called the children of God. May 
Thy peace which passeth all understanding keep 
our hearts and minds through Jesus Christ, unto 
whom be glory and honor forever. Amen. 

Meditation 

"Great peace have they that keep Thy law." 
God's law is God's will expressed. I know His 
will from His word. "I have hid Thy law in my 
heart that I might not sin against Thee" and keep 



FOR LIGHT 113 

Thy law that I may have peace. I accept Jesus 
Christ, the Prince of Peace, and He dwells in me 
richly, filling my life with boundless peace. 

Affirmation 

I have sweet peace, the gift of God's love, fill- 
ing my whole personality and radiating out of 
my life to others. 

Pray — meditate — realize. 

For Light 

O God, Thou art the Father of light with 
whom there is no variableness nor shadow of 
turning. Do Thou be our light. Thy light is 
everywhere but we have been blind. Open Thou 
our eyes to behold Thy beauty and to be 
charmed with Thy effulgence. Give us the light 
of the knowledge of glory in the face of Jesus 
Christ. May we reflect as in a mirror the glory 
of the Lord and be transformed into the same 
image from glory to glory even as from the 
Spirit of the Lord. Thou art the blessed Lord, 
the light of the world ; because we are Thine 
make us lights in the world. Help us to let our 
light shine before men, that they may see our 
good works and glorify our Father which is in 
Heaven. Amen. 



114 HEALING AND HELP 

Meditation 

"He that doeth truth cometh to the light." To 
do the truth I must be made free by the truth. 
I am free from fear, doubt, superstition, and shall 
follow the spiritual mind wherever truth leads 
me, so that I shall come to and clearly see by the 
Light. I shall see untrue things quickly and 
avoid them. I shall follow the inward light and 
the voice of the Spirit, and my intentions and 
motives shall be true, pure, and good since God's 
will is revealed in me. 

Affirmation 

I shall be careful about judging by appear- 
ances which may deceive, but shall depend on 
my intuitions directed by the light of the In- 
finite Mind that shows me the truth concerning 
myself and all things. 

Pray — meditate — realize. 

For Work 

Our Father, may we work because Thou dost 
work through us to accomplish Thine own will 
and purpose in us. Thou dost work and we must 
be laborers together with Thee. Help us to 
work the works of Him who has sent us into 
the world to do His will. May we do with our 
might what our hands find to do. We have been 
chosen unto good works and may we produce 



A HOLY LIFE 115 

them in sincerity of spirit and in blessing to our 
fellowmen. Help us not to be slothful in busi- 
ness, but burning in spirit, serving the Lord and 
doing good for Jesus sake. Amen. 

Meditation 

"For we are His workmanship, created in 
Christ Jesus unto good works." "Being fruitful 
in every good work, and increasing in the knowl- 
edge of God." I am abiding in the true vine and 
the life of the vine abides in me and I can bring 
forth much fruit. "The works that I do shall ye 
do," said Jesus, and I therefore must do the Fa- 
ther's will because I am commanded to by my 
Lord. Faith without works is dead, but my 
faith is a living, working, faith. Whatsoever I 
do in word or deed, I do in the name of the Lord 
Jesus. 

Affirmation 

God makes all grace abound in me so that hav- 
ing all sufficiency in all things I abound unto 
every good work. I talk health and happiness 
and realize them in my life and keep my thoughts 
pure and good, so that I speak only the truth 
in sincerity and love. 

Pray — meditate — realize. 

For a Holy Life 
Our Father may wc know, love, and obey 



116 HEALING AND HELP 

Thee and do good in this world. We would wor- 
ship Thee in sincerity and in truth and be conse- 
crated completely unto Thee. We would give 
Thee our whole life and be wholly Thine that 
we may be holy in Thy sight and before our fel- 
lowmen. We thank Thee that Thou hast made 
us heirs of Thine and joint heirs with Jesus 
Christ to a wonderful inheritance with the saints 
of light. I live and move and have my being in 
Thee and Thou dost manifest Thyself in and 
through me. Help me to be holy so that Thou 
canst do Thy will in and through me towards 
others in the world. For the sake of Him who 
came to do Thy will. Amen. 

Meditation 

"Be ye healthy (holy), for I am holy." Whole- 
ness or health and holiness come from the same 
root word and the quotation from the Bible ex- 
presses the thought of the Scripture writer ex- 
actly. The relation of holiness and health is 
very intimate. I desire to be holy in order to be 
healthy. To be holy implies consecration to God, 
service to Him and lending help to those in need. 
I live because He liveth in me. I now open my 
life fully so that the Holy Spirit may enter, 
abide in, and work through me. I do this defi- 
nitely, intentionally, and conscientiously this 
very moment. I am holy because Christ liveth 



FOR PARDON 117 

in me and works through me, and I realize this 
now. 

Pray — meditate — realize. 

For Pardon 

We thank Thee, our Father, for the Lamb of 
God that lifteth up and carrieth away the sins of 
the world. Who is God like unto Thee that 
pardoneth iniquity. We praise Thee that we are 
fully forgiven because we have confessed our 
sin and inasmuch as we have, it will be remem- 
bered against us no more forever. Jesus is our 
peace and He has reconciled us to Thee, O God, 
by His cross. We thank Thee for the promise 
that if the wicked will forsake his way and the 
unrighteous man his thoughts and will return 
unto the Lord, he shall be abundantly pardoned. 
Again we have been told that if we turn from all 
our sins and keep Thy statutes, that we shall 
live and our transgressions shall not be men- 
tioned unto us. We praise Thee that condemna- 
tion has been lifted and we have peace and for- 
giveness through Jesus Christ, Our Lord. Give 
us a complete realization of this faith in Christ. 
Amen. 

Meditation 

"Be ye kind to one another, tender hearted, 
forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's 
sake hath forgiven you." 1 will forgive all who 



118 HEALING AND HELP 

have done me wrong, for it will do me no good, 
but harm if I do not do so. The measure of my 
forgiveness is the measure of Christ's forgive- 
ness to me. I will be kind and tender-hearted 
to the erring and do what I can to help them. I 
will think no evil, I will hear no evil, I will 
speak no evil, I will keep sweet under provoca- 
tion and do all I can to glorify Christ because of 
what He has done for me. 

Affirmation 

I will forgive and forget wrongs done against 
me. 

Pray — meditate — realize. 

For Comfort 

We praise Thee, O God, for the comforting 
promises of Thy word. Blessed are they that 
mourn for they shall be comforted. If we mourn 
on account of our sins, mistakes, afflictions, sor- 
rows, we claim the fulfillment of Thy precious 
promise. Having been tempted in all points as 
we are tempted Thou knowest, O Blessed High 
Priest, how to succor. We thank Thee, our Fa- 
ther, for Thy pity and mercy. Jesus had com- 
passion on the multitude and healed the sick, 
opened blind eyes, unstopped deaf ears, un- 
loosed dumb tongues, made the lame to walk, 
healed the leper, and comforted the sorrowing, 
showing how Thou dost work and feel towards 



FOR HEALTH 119 

the needy. May Thy comfort come to every 
heart in need for His sake. Amen. 

Meditation 

"Comfort ye, comfort ye, my people, saith the 
Lord." The need is the basis of this command. 
I will do all I can to carry out this command in 
my relation to men and women in need of com- 
fort. My heart has been sad and disconsolate 
and some came and spoke kindly to me and I 
was helped. I will do the same for the sake of 
my Master who set me the example of doing 
good and comforting those in need. "As He was 
in the world," so am I to be as His follower. 

Affirmation 

I am comforted that I may comfort some one 
else, I will do this in Christ's name. 

Pray — meditate — realize. 

For Health 

We thank Thee, our Father, that Thou art a 
God of health, for Thou art holy. Help us to 
come into such conscious relation to Thee that 
Thy health and holiness shall be ours and we 
shall manifest this condition day by day. If we 
are sick, Thou canst cure us, for hast Thou not 
said, "I. will restore health unto thee, and I will 
heal thee of thy wounds." The prayer of faith 



120 HEALING AND HELP 

shall save and Thou shalt answer it by raising 
us up. Help us to realize that this work can 
be done according to our faith, for all things are 
possible to him that believeth. Make health con- 
tagious, we pray Thee, so that we shall be able 
to do that which will bring holiness into all lives 
and get glory unto Thy name. Amen. 

Meditation 

"The tongue of the wise is health." (Prov. 
12:18.) Thought ought always to precede speech. 
"As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." Then 
I will think health, talk health, for this will help 
to establish the real and natural condition that 
ought always to obtain in life. Sickness is due 
to the violation of some law. I will avoid read- 
ing or talking or thinking about disease, its 
symptoms, and its effects. I shall talk health 
and only health, and try to get others to do the 
same. 

Affirmation 

I am healthy, strong, and well. I breathe in 
the health of the Infinite Spirit. I am "in tune 
with the Infinite" and His life and health are 
mine. 

Pray — meditate — realize. 

For Grace 

For Thy great grace we thank Thee, our Fa- 



FOR GRACE 121 

ther, and pray for its continuance. It is by grace 
that we are saved through faith in Christ Jesus, 
our Lord. Thy life is manifested by grace and 
Thy love is the supreme heart of that favor. Help 
us to show grace unto others as we ourselves 
have received so that they shall be brought to 
know Thee whom to know aright is life eternal. 
We ask it for His sake who was full of grace and 
truth. Amen. 

Meditation 

"Let your speech be always with grace, sea- 
soned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought 
to answer every man." (Col. 4:6.) God's grace 
has been manifested toward me, bringing me sal- 
vation for my sin, and life eternal. His love 
prompted the grace to be shown and I rejoice 
in it. I can come, and will, to realize that grace 
and love in my life and show it unto others. It 
makes me glad, unselfish, and true in my life and 
I desire to become fully surrendered to His will 
that I may become a channel for His love and 
grace to flow unto others. 

Affirmation 

I am a channel for God's will, love, and grace, 
so that other lives shall be enriched as well as 
my own. 

Pray — meditate — realize. 



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For Love 

We thank Thee, O Father, for Thy great love 
and we would love Thee with all our hearts, with 
all our soul, with all our mind, and with all our 
strength. We would love our neighbors as our- 
selves, and prove that we have passed from 
death unto life because we love the brethren. If 
we love one another, we know that God dwelleth 
in us, and that His love is perfect in us. Help 
us not to love in word only, but in deed and in 
truth. There is no fear in love and we are taught 
also that perfect love casteth out fear. We may 
have all things, but without love they are noth- 
ing. If we have Thee dwelling in us then shall 
we be rich and masterful and think no evil. Give 
us the fruit of the Spirit, which is love. We ask 
all this for the sake of Him who loved us and 
gave himself for us. Amen. 

Meditation 

"Speaking the truth in love, may we grow up 
into Him in all things, which is the head, even 
Christ." (Eph. 4:15.) Speaking in love, knowing 
and speaking the truth in love, will increase my 
love for God and man. I am in a great ocean 
of love, for I am in God, and His love pours in- 
to my whole being so that my intellect, sensi- 
bilities, and will are all controlled by His love. 
I see myself living, moving, and having my being 



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in Him, and I will try to do only those things 
that are well-pleasing unto Him. 

Affirmation 

God's love fills me, keeps me, and manifests 
through me. 

Pray — meditate — realize. 

Giving a Treatment 

Relaxation 

1. Have the one to be helped to lie down on 
a bed or couch or sit in an easy chair and relax. 
Have every part of the body relaxed so that the 
circulation and nerve force may be equalized 
over the whole body. Lift the hand and if it 
falls limp the relaxation is a fact ; if not, go 
over each part of the body and suggest relaxa- 
tion, rest, and a quiet feeling with no desire to 
move or think. 

Visualization 

2. Get very still and have a picture in your 
mind of the one needing help being perfectly 
normal and well in his spiritual nature and that 
God's spirit is completely entering the whole 
personality and working for a complete, normal, 
harmonious, and complete manifestation of 
health. With the picture in mind determine that 
the patient shall receive it; also make your men- 



124 HEALING AND HELP 

tal affirmation and declare the truth of God's ex- 
pression in the spirit, soul, and body of the af- 
flicted one or the one needing help. Get away 
mentally from the appearance, the ill feeling, or 
the abnormal condition. You are to awaken and 
quicken into new activity the great physical and 
spiritual forces in the personality and set them 
going to establish right relations to God and an 
expression of His life in the individual to be 
helped. 

God's Presence 

3. Get a picture and hold it graphically of 
God's presence as good and powerful in healing, 
recovering, and enriching the life. Know that 
it imparts life, knowledge, love and joy, and fills 
the whole person with these things and with per- 
fect health. This is God expressing Himself in 
and through the needy one. 

Declaration 

4. Mentally declare that this will be seen and 
realized in the one you try to help, and hold the 
thought of complete and speedy recovery. 

Avoid Denials 

5. Avoid denials of illness by mentioning the 
name of the ailment, for that will only mentally 
cause the patient to think of it. Your purpose must 
be to replace that by a picture of wholeness, per- 



RESULTS ARE GOD'S 125 

fection, and harmony. When this becomes ef- 
fective your healing work has been done. 

Pray 

6. Pray silently, then audibly if so impressed, 
expressing thanks for the blessings given and af- 
ter that meditate on the peace, love, and health 
that God gives to the needy one. 

Affirmation 

7. Then affirm silently and audibly in the 
name of Christ that the work is done, that recov- 
ery has commenced, that the circulation has been 
greatly increased, that the nerve force has been 
greatly quickened, and that the patient will real- 
ize that God is working in him to keep him 
whole, in perfect harmony and health throughout 
his whole nature. 



8. Realize this in yourself and then in him 
and hold the picture until you feel that it is an 
assured fact. 

Results Are God's 

9. Your work now is done and you have noth- 
ing to do with the consequences. You are to 
seek the truth, speak the truth with authority and 
confidence. You should use the law, have a right 
mental and spiritual attitude, live the truth and 
be right with him who alone can heal. Your duty 



126 HEALING AND HELP 

is to see God perfectly expressing Himself and 
trust the law of His wholeness, harmony, and 
health manifesting in the needy, and the results 
will show in due season. 

Recognize God Always 

10. Recognize God when you commence the 
treatment, follow that by silently or audibly de- 
claring the truths that God has given and apply 
these truths to the individual life and end by 
giving thanks and praise to Him "who doeth 
the works." 

The prayers, meditations, and affirmations 
may help but the realization is very essential in 
bringing God and the needy together. 

A Briefer Form 

Relaxation 

1. Get the afflicted or needy one thoroughly 
relaxed. Then pray silently or audibly. 

Meditation and 
Realization 

2. Then meditate and visualize using any 
mental words or thoughts you may desire or that 
come to you at the time. Picture a normal, 
healthy condition. Hold it until the thought 
and picture seems to grip the patient's mind. 

Affirmation 

3. Affirm health, harmony, and happiness and 



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hold the affirmation mentally until the ailing one 
seems to realize it as a possibility. 

Avoid Certain Things 

4. Do not pronounce him cured ; let that be 
done by him. And do not talk to him about his 
ailment and ask him not to talk about it to any- 
one. 

Ocean of Health 

5. Tell him to picture himself being in a great 
ocean of health and harmony and that he is 
breathing these things into his whole nature for 
he lives and moves and has his being in God and 
God fills him with health, harmony, and happi- 
ness, and that he should praise God for all these 
things. 

Realization 

6. Tell him how to realize all these things in 
his life by living as God wants him to live and 
as Christ has shown him how to live in this 
world. Read Phil. 4:6-7. 

Another Form of Treatment 

Some people will yield to a very simple form 
of treatment which may be called a simple sug- 
gestive form. 

Relaxation and Breathing 

Have the person relax as in the other forms 



128 HEALING AND HELP 

and breathe deeply for a few moments with eyes 
closed. 

Suggestions 

Then quietly suggest that the whole body is 
relaxed, the circulation and nerve forces are 
equalized and a quiet restful feeling is present, 
and in that condition suggest that the rest will 
recuperate the body and the mind will relax its 
thinking and receive fully all the suggestions 
given. Say : The venous blood is flowing down 
out of the brain and the brain is quiet and rest- 
ful and will do its work perfectly. The arterial 
blood is flowing freely into the brain and is nour- 
ishing it and stimulating it to new activity. The 
arterial blood is flowing freely to all the organs 
of the body — stomach, liver, spleen, intestines, 
lungs, heart, kidneys, nourishing, stimulating and 
reinforcing for new activity and health. (Sug- 
gest positive, not negative conditions.) 

Suggestions Continued 

Suggest that all fear, worry, adverse anticipa- 
tion are passing away and courage, optimism, and 
a positive mental attitude are asserting and mani- 
festing themselves. Suggest hopefulness, cheer- 
fulness, happiness, health, and success. 

Suggest the incoming of the Holy Spirit bring- 
ing hope, peace, prosperity, power, joy, and all 
the fruits of His own life. Speak slowly, em- 



IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER 129 

phatically, and monotonously. Hold the picture 
of help to the needy one and help him to realize 
the truth of what you say. 

Quiet Talk 

Sometimes a quiet talk about taking Jesus as 
a Savior and receiving Him into the life may 
bring peace to a troubled soul. A short prayer 
for, and a quiet meditation with, and a positive 
affirmation of, the patient like this one will help : 
"I do now take Jesus as my Savior and Lord and 
will do His will as I see it." 

These forms of treatment and help can be mod- 
ified according to conditions. 

Important Things To Remember 

Affirmations 

1. Affirmations — "to make firm" — are consent 
to and an acceptance of the validity or truth of 
something. They have to do particularly with 
the truth and one's relation to it. When we de- 
clare or affirm something it is for the purpose 
of realizing the truth of it in ourselves, so that 
we may become conscious of it in its fullest 
measure. 

Denials 

2. Denial deals with appearances, the sense 
life, and passing and changeable feelings, with 
temporal, visible, and changeable conditions, not 



130 HEALING AND HELP 

with the permanent and real. It deals with actu- 
ality, but not with reality, with things and con- 
ditions that may change any time. Denials usu- 
ally cause one to repeat the names of disease or 
sickness or conditions which one wants to get 
rid of. If you can avoid the use of denials, do so, 
and forget conditions. Christ said, "I am the 
way, the truth, the life", and that is positive and 
not negative. I know the truth and it makes me 
free ; I see the way and I walk in it ; I behold 
the life and accept and manifest it. 



3. Every mental impression strives for expres- 
sion and every mental image strives for realiza- 
tion. So be careful of your mental act, thought, 
and impression as it will be caught by the sub- 
conscious, the storehouse of the mental life where 
thought-images and experiences are recorded. If 
the subconscious has good, pure pictures or 
images it will respond to your call and come as 
an aid in your need. So watch against the en- 
trance of things not good, impure, untrue, in- 
harmonious, and imperfect into the subconscious 
as those things will come up unexpectedly to 
cloud your vision and prevent the realization of 
the best, the highest, and noblest things in life. 

Thoughts Are Pictures 

4. Your thoughts are images, pictures, so put 



THOUGHTS ARE PICTURES 131 

the most beautiful constructive ones into the 
mental life ; images which you will be glad to 
look at any time and have anyone else do so and 
not be ashamed. There is not very much value 
or power in denial, so avoid it. Thoughts of 
good, truth, and love do not mix with images of 
evil, falsehood and hatred any more than you can 
mix oil and water. 

Positive and Negative 

Ella Wheeler Wilcox states the matter well 
in the following verses : 

"If we talk of the good that the world contains, 

And try our best to add to it, 
The evil will die of neglect by and by — 

'Tis the very best way to undo it. 

"We preach too much and we dwell too long 
On sin and sorrow and trouble ; 

We help them to live by the thoughts we give 
Their spite and might to redouble. 

"For the earth is fair and the people are kind. 
If once you look for their kindness; 

When the world seems sad and its denizens bad, 
It is only your own soul's blindness. 

"And I say if we search for the good and pure, 
And give no thought to the evil, 

Our labors are worth far more to the earth 
Than when we are chasing the devil." 

Formulas for treatments given here are only 
examples. They can be used silently or audibly. 



132 HEALING AND HELP 

Any thoughtful person can form, modify, re- 
fashion, or make new ones according to the re- 
quirements. 

Suggest that all fear, worry, and adverse antici- 
pation are passing away and courage, optimism, 
and a positive mental attitude are asserting and 
manifesting themselves. Suggest hopefulness, 
happiness, health, and success. 

The healer if he desires to do so can lay his 
hand on the forehead of the patient suggesting 
that new power is entering the brain and pass- 
ing over all the nerves to every organ of the 
body. This is tactile suggestion and to some 
persons it is very helpful and they recover very 
rapidly. It may be helpful to some to put the 
right hand on the forehead and the left on the 
back of the head and suggest strength, help, 
health. You can use audible or silent sugges- 
tions, holding a picture of the person in a nor- 
mal, healthy condition. Certain persons will re- 
spond more rapidly if the right hand is placed on 
the spine or the lower part of the brain or below 
the occiput and the left hand on the stomach, 
heart, liver or other organs, and suggest recov- 
ery if any organ is affected. The hands can also 
be reversed and one or the other can be placed 
along the spine and the other on the organ af- 
fected to which the corresponding nerves go to 
innervate the organ. A knowledge of anatomy 
is required for this work. In my book on Sug- 



PREPARATION 133 

gestion will be found other suggestions concern- 
ing treatment. The mental and spiritual treat- 
ment is the best and the one most emphasized in 
this book. Be sure and thoroughly study the 
methods and conscientiously use them. 

Preparation and the Way 

Follow the form given to prepare the person for 
treatment and talk quietly about your desire to 
help him to a normal condition in which he will 
become well, love God, and his fellowmen, and 
find a conscious oneness with God who is "All 
in All." Show him that his wrong thinking and 
acting have brought on the abnormal condition 
and that changing them will establish a normal, 
healthy, and happy condition. Letting in the 
light drives out the darkness, accepting the truth 
and practicing it will put down falsehood and 
wrong. Whilst you make no new truth by 
thought, yet holding the thought steadfast to 
and in the truth, the false and wrong images may 
be destroyed and the real, essential, permanent, 
and normal life will be released and established. 
Show him that the way to realization is prayer 
and meditation, aspiration, affirmation, and prac- 
ticing the truth by which he comes into con- 
scious and definite oneness with God through 
Christ. He must not think more of the gifts than 
the Giver and oneness with God includes all 
other things. 



134 HEALING AND HELP 

FOR VARIOUS DISEASES 

Nervousness and Fear 

Suggest relaxation, deep breathing, quiet and 
rest. Quote "God hath not given us a spirit of 
fear, but of love, and of power, and of a sound 
mind." (2 Tim. 1 :7.) "Perfect love casteth out 
all fear," power conquers it, and a sound mind 
masters it. God does not give us a spirit of fear; 
you will open your heart to receive the Spirit 
and He gives freedom from fear, courage, love, 
power, and peace and you can claim them now. 
Fear and nervousness develop in the sense life, 
but in the deepest part of your nature there is no 
consciousness or feeling of fear. Your mental 
attitude is wrong and that can be and will be 
changed at once. God is in you, for you trust 
Him, and all fear will disappear and nervousness 
will subside. You will meet all things cour- 
ageously and "as thy days so shall thy strength 
be." Christ in you is the hope of glory, and vic- 
tory with complete mastery over all fear and 
nervousness. You will now have a conscious 
realization of God's presence with you and in 
you. There is nothing to fear or to become ner- 
vous over. Accepting with all your heart the per- 
fect mind of Christ, which is light and love, you 
will fear no evil and be composed in your men- 
tal and physical life. There is but one supreme 
Presence and Power and that is God, hence there 



FEVERS AND DISTRESS 135 

is nothing for you to fear or resist or be nervous 
about. 

Fevers and Distress of Different Kinds 

Use whatever is suitable in the preceding treat- 
ment and in quiet meditation hold the picture of 
the patient in a normal and healthy condition. 
Mentally assert harmony, strength, and peace in 
the mind and body of the afflicted one. Affirm 
direct and open relation between God and the pa- 
tient and hold that thought. Declare an equali- 
zation of nerve force and of the circulation over 
the whole body. You can suggest audibly these 
things if you desire and mentally intend that 
they shall be realized in the person fully. Sug- 
gest that the fever will subside and the distress 
— whether pain, fright, or adverse anticipation 
will be banished. Hold the thought that the spir- 
itual nature is perfect for God has made it so 
and through that nature each one is directly re- 
lated to God and through faith in Him all 
health, help, and strength flow into his life. 
Claim the healing presence and the power to 
overcome all abnormal conditions. God's mind 
gives rest and comfort, power and love, and 
produces peace and victory in man's mind and 
self. "Come unto me and I will give you rest." 
The coming is a mental act and the rest is a gift. 
God dwells in you and produces a peaceful mind 
and a strong, healthy body. Affirm peace, ease, 



136 HEALING AND HELP 

and rest of mind and body for him. The fever 
subsides, the circulation is equalized, the nerve 
forces are equalized and are working normally 
and a normal condition of mind and body is 
manifested now and will continue. All distress 
is leaving and you are now master of yourself. 

Rheumatism, Neuralgia, and Pain Generally 

Suggest thorough relaxation of every part of 
the body and mind, equalization of the circu- 
lation and nerve force, greater activity of all the 
eliminating organs, and a free movement of 
all the muscles and limbs, and that the pain is 
subsiding. You can suggest silently these things, 
holding a picture in your mind of relief and a 
normal condition in the patient. Hold the pic- 
ture until the patient relaxes thoroughly. De- 
termining that the picture you hold shall grip 
the patient's mind as that will establish hope 
and bring a realization of help. Then suggest 
audibly or silently, strength, health, and peace 
with relief from the painful conditions. Those 
blessings come from God and you can make them 
yours by seeing them present in the patient's 
mind and realizing that they are a present pos- 
session. It is ungodlike to be sick and in pain, 
for God gives health and relief. Harmony with 
His mind brings harmony of mind and body. Say 
to the sick one, "You are feeling better because 



DISTURBANCES 137 

all the physical functions are doing their work 
well and normally and your mind is at peace 
with God and man. God is in you and He works 
through you to establish health by relief from 
abnormal conditions and producing normal cir- 
culation and equalization of nerve forces. Be- 
lieve, receive, act accordingly, and claim the 
healing." 

Pray — meditate — realize. 

For Disturbances of Different Organs 

Indigestion, congestions, and inflammations 
are all due to lack of nerve innervation and dis- 
turbed circulation. Any method that will pro- 
duce normal circulation and normal nerve inner- 
vation will correct the trouble and establish a 
normal condition. Causes ought to be looked 
after and corrected. Nature tends to the normal 
and if these abnormal conditions are corrected 
nature or the vital forces of the body under the 
power of the mind will produce a healthy condi- 
tion. Mental habits of worry, fear, and wrong 
thinking, in general, will produce a depressing 
effect on the nerves and then they will produce a 
corresponding effect on certain organs and the 
venous drainage becoming slow will permit con- 
gestion and inflammation and adverse conditions 
which will make themselves felt in the whole 
body. If there is an added stimulation to any or- 
gan there will be an increased activity asserting 



138 HEALING AND HELP 

itself. If there is a depressing condition there 
will be a slowing down ; if a drastic effect, every 
cell will work more rapidly to throw that out. 

The mental work is to reinforce the mind with 
renewed activity, and thus increase the nerve 
energy by mental power and also quicken the 
circulation by renewed nerve force. Suggest to 
yourself: We are vitally related to the Supreme 
Mind of this universe and it is healthy, harmoni- 
ous, and normal and I claim its manifestation in 
me and in the one afflicted. Suggest to him 
either audibly or silently : In essential nature 
you are one with the One Will, Life, and Sub- 
stance, and as this Life enters your life fully in- 
creased activity manifests itself in every organ 
of your body and produces a normal condition. 
Your food will thoroughly digest and agree with 
you. Changes in the atmosphere will not affect 
you. You will love all persons, and all things 
work together for good to you in your whole 
personality. Oneness with Him brings peace, 
joy, happiness, and these conditions have an ex- 
hilarating effect on every organ in your body, and 
health is your inheritance. 

You are one with God and His life and health 
enters your whole personality and all abnormal 
conditions are changing into normal and healthy 
manifestation. All congestion, inflammation, and 
distress are passing away. 



REST AND SLEEP 139 

For Rest and Sleep — Insomnia, Etc. 

Tell the patient to watch against hurry, worry, 
flurry during the day, for these things produce 
tension on the body and its organs and they in- 
terfere with the venous circulation from, and the 
arterial circulation to, the brain. Have in your 
mind the consciousness of rest and when you sit 
down relax and remove tension and suggest, with 
eyes closed a few minutes, that you will sleep 
and rest that night. Make your suggestions with 
determination and desire that they will be real- 
ized. When in bed relax, breathe deeply, and 
suggest that "He giveth His beloved sleep." Get 
a picture in your mind of being sleepy. Hold 
it and act it out. See yourself enfolded in the 
Infinite Mind where there is perfect rest and 
hold quiet, sweet communion with that Mind, 
feeling that you are one with it. Accept the rest 
given, the love bestowed, and the refreshment 
afforded. Repeat the Twenty-third Psalm. Say : 
"I rest in Him." Say to the patient: If insom- 
nia has bothered you don't resist but say, "I 
don't care if I sleep or not. I am resting in Him 
and He gives me strength, love, quietness, and 
perfect health. God's presence is all I need, and 
I am resting in Him." Say to the patient: When 
you are getting ready for bed, or near that time, 
sit, or lie down in a comfortable position and af- 
firm that you are at peace with all men, and that 
your mind is not disturbed by anything of the 



140 HEALING AND HELP 

day. Be charitable in your judgment concern- 
ing things that occurred during the day and see 
by faith the enwrapping Presence of your Father 
and affirm that His rest is yours now, both in 
mind and body, and will be through the night. 
Your soul is at rest and is still in His presence. 
All fear has gone out of your mind — fear of fail- 
ure, fear of foes, of sleeping — because you per- 
fectly love Him. "When thou liest down thou 
shalt not be afraid. Yea, thou shalt lie down and 
thy sleep shall be sweet." You will rest in God 
and you are perfectly satisfied every hour. 

Relief and Help for Accidents 

Say : We are in a world governed by law and 
order because God is the ruler, law-giver, and di- 
rector. In His kingdom there are no accidents; 
He is everywhere present, and things that come 
to us He overrules for our good and for His 
glory. In this conviction you can rest and in 
it you can realize His presence and help just 
now. There is but one power, one will, one law 
ruling over all things and you can rest in that 
and find consolation, love, mastery, and peace. 
Looking to Him, and yourself as vitally related 
to Him, that which comes to you can and will 
be overruled for good. You know Him and your 
real self manifested through your body, and they 
govern your body and control all pain. No fear 
can alarm you, no harm can befall you, for God 



NEURASTHENIA 141 

fills you with Himself and you are master and 
shall quickly recover. You will dismiss the be- 
lief of disorder, pain, inflammation and weak- 
ness, for you are resting in the love of God and 
you are confident of His power and healing. 

Neurasthenia and Allied Conditions 

The nervous system is the connecting link be- 
tween the mind and body and is similar to the 
telegraph wires in carrying messages between 
the sender and the receiver. The nerves are 
easily interfered with by abnormal conditions. 
Being plastic, pressure by a slipped vertebrae or 
contracted muscle may prevent the nerve carry- 
ing the full impulse or energy of the mind. There 
might be such pressure so that nearly all the im- 
pulse or energy might be prevented from reach- 
ing an organ or organs, and produce almost a 
state of paralysis. The organs innervated by 
nerves thus interfered with would slow down 
their processes and a condition of auto-intoxica- 
tion would be produced. That state continued 
for awhile would produce neurasthenia, nervous 
prostration, and similar conditions described by 
physicians. The permanent method of cure will 
be to relieve the primary causes or to somehow 
augment the nerve impulses. Physical adjust- 
ment and manipulation can very readily give re- 
lief for the physical interference and mental stim- 
ulation can greatly help towards augmenting 



142 HEALING AND HELP 

nerve impulses. The nerves, if interfered with 
in the manner referred to above, will in a measure 
somehow in time increase their carrying power. 
Nature seems to help reinforce the power to 
overcome the interference and tries to remedy 
the trouble so that persons affected nervously, 
under good care and nursing, come to a state of 
recovery. The mental attitude that is cheerful, 
optimistic, and positive greatly assists in the re- 
covery. Such a mental state has a tendency to 
increase the nerve force and the blood flow and 
thus establish a normal condition. Neurasthenia 
covers numerous nerve conditions and these all 
can be controlled and made normal by specific 
treatment. The diet, deep breathing, complete 
physical relaxation, bathing, and plenty of sleep 
with outdoor life will do much to aid in establish- 
ing a normal, healthy nerve condition. 

The following mental and spiritual treatment 
will lead to complete recovery. Say to the pa- 
ient: You are united to God through your mind 
by faith. His life, health and power are yours. 
You can truly use the words of Jesus when He 
spoke to the storm, "Peace, be still," and the 
nerves will quiet and your mental life will be still 
and in peace. 

You live, move, and have your being in Him 
all the time, and you can be consciously certain 
of this as you make it a matter of realization. 
Your thought is centered and rests in God now 



INTEMPERANCE 143 

and the truth gives you freedom from all adverse 
conditions. Your fear is gone and perfect confi- 
dence manifests itself and there is peace in your 
whole being. 

Every nerve center is in perfect health and the 
power of love acts normally and pervades your 
whole personality and gives restful sensations 
throughout the body and in the mind. Every 
nerve is an avenue of strength and carries the 
consciousness, feeling, and sensation of peace 
throughout the whole body. You find blessed 
rest, new spiritual energy and mental impulse by 
the indwelling of God in your life, so that you 
find health in His holiness and you are obedient 
to His command — "Be ye healthy for I am 
Holy." You may claim recovery, peace, health, 
power in the name of Christ. 

Intemperance and Other Sins 

Say: "Be ye clean" is a command of God and 
we are made clean through the word of God. Sin 
may be many things but it is certainly one thing 
— uncleanness. You can quench your thirst with 
the water of life and you can find cleansing from 
all sin in what Jesus Christ has done and can 
do. "If we confess our sin, He is faithful and 
just to forgive us our sin and cleanse us from all 
unrighteousness." The indwelling Spirit of God 
working through the truth can purify your heart 
and life and take away the desire for drink and 



144 HEALING AND HELP 

wrong doing. He does so work in your life now 
and you believe and claim the victory and act ac- 
cordingly. You may open your life and be filled 
with the fullness of God. You will do so now, 
claiming the blessing and act it out and realize 
it in your whole person. Every night when you 
retire you will claim the victory and also before 
and after you arise, you will claim it and assert 
it many times during the day. 

For Special and Specific Physical Troubles 

Say to the patient: Claiming freedom of mind, 
spirit, and the physical system through the truth 
will establish an equalization of nerve force and 
blood circulation in the body. Your organs are 
being re-enforced with new nerve energy and 
blood and they are doing their work well and 
normally. You are untrammeled in body, 
thought, and mind. Nature tends to the normal 
and God works through nature or law in you and 
you are consciously at peace. You are hopeful 
and optimistic and every vital organ feels the im- 
pact of new power which gives it new activity. 
The kidneys are being strengthened, the heart 
re-enforced, the lungs augmented in power, the 
peristaltic action of the bowels is normal and 
every organ is performing its work normally. 
Hold your picture of a normal condition and nor- 
mal workings for all the organs. (This treat- 
ment can be used for each organ at any time 
according to the need.) 



CHRONIC CONDITIONS 145 

Chronic Conditions. 

Some acute diseases and conditions have a tend- 
ency to become chronic in form. This is true of 
rheumatism, kidney and heart troubles, and other 
well known ailments. One's mind will accept the 
suggestions of doctors and other persons that 
they are incurable and as a result there is 
a mental let-up in doing anything to remedy 
the condition and a resignation to one's fate. 
"Wherever there is life there is hope" of a change 
and an amelioration of the condition. Adverse 
suggestions and their effects are not easily over- 
come but there is wonderful power in one's 
psychical nature and omnipotent power in the In- 
finite Mind everywhere present, so that if these 
forces are united there is no telling what may be 
done in overcoming chronic and abnormal condi- 
tions and in the establishment of a healthy and 
comfortable state of mind and body. If one's 
mind is controlled by the suggestion of inability 
to do anything and a feeling of hopelessness there 
will be a continual chronic state of ill-feeling 
manifested in the mind and body. The bodily 
condition depends very largely on the mental 
condition. Urge an observance of the laws of 
hygiene, deep breathing, and exercise and then 
give a thorough mental treatment. This can be 
done silently or audibly or both with good re- 
sults. 



146 HEALING AND HELP 

This form may help : There is one Perfect 
Mind filling all places and it is absolute in power. 
This Life and Mind are the source of all power 
and health, and as they enter your life fully and 
work in it the old chronic conditions are changed 
and the nerve energy is agumented and the cir- 
culations — venous, arterial, and lymph — are in- 
creased and all the organs of your body are in- 
creased in activity and elimination and a new 
condition of health is established. (Each organ 
or condition can be thus mentally treated effect- 
ively.) 

You are not in bondage to any circumstances, 
you are free, you are not affected by external 
things like climate, what is said, or by disappoint- 
ments or rebuffs. You have perfect peace in the 
depths of your real self and no external storms 
can affect that deep stream of peace that flows 
in your life because your mind is stayed on God 
and your trust is in Him. You are one with the 
Mind of Wisdom and Power and you receive 
what that Mind so freely gives and you make it 
your own. You recognize your dependence on 
that Mind and independence of things and per- 
sons about you. You are a changeless being in 
your real self and pure in substance because the 
Infinite Spirit fills you with His life, nature, and 
substance. You are overcoming the chronic con- 
ditions and you see yourself as master and vic- 
torious with a new mental attitude, normal sen- 



ABNORMAL DEVELOPMENTS 147 

sations, and complete relief. You will hold a 
picture of normal health and act it out with suc- 
cess, renewed vigor, and strength. You do this 
in His name. 

Growths and Other Abnormal Developments. 

The works of God are good and perfect. Ab- 
normal conditions are the result of interference 
with those works. Many forms of interference 
are found in the world and in the human body, 
producing serious consequences in certain realms 
of manifestation. Man's spiritual nature natur- 
ally seeks to maintain a vital relation with the 
Infinite. Selfishness, wrong thinking, and choos- 
ing a wrong course of conduct interfere with a 
conscious realization of power, love, wisdom, and 
the manifestation of the Spirit in the life of man. 

The mind will work and perfectly manifest 
itself through the body if not interfered with. 
Interferences are manifold and as a result certain 
physical manifestations occur that are called 
growths, tumors, etc. As in other physical ail- 
ments so in these there must be established a 
good normal nerve energy and a good blood and 
lymph circulation. Especially must there be a 
good venous drainage. Exercise, deep breathing, 
drinking plenty of water, and other physical aux- 
iliaries will greatly assist and in some cases may 
remedy these conditions. The knife is sometimes 
required. The mental side of treatment is rather 



148 HEALING AND HELP 

important as that lies back of a renewal of pow- 
er required to produce normal physical results. 

An open channel for the spiritual power to 
work through will produce most amazing results. 
The mind must be impressed with the thought of 
strength, renewed energy, and power to assist 
and augment the vital forces in breaking through 
the interferences that do not permit a normal 
manifestation. Say to the patient : God works 
through your mind and body. His power re- 
moves all hindrance to the perfect circulation of 
blood and nerve action. The elimination be- 
comes perfect and health is re-established. Love 
is a "consuming fire" and burns away false and 
abnormal conditions. It purifies the mind and 
cleanses the body and because you love God 
supremely He dwells in you fully and every part 
of your mind and body are permeated by His 
presence and all abnormal conditions change into 
a normal state. You will hold a picture of perfect 
relief and a normal condition and see that the One 
Life and Substance fills your whole life and re- 
moves the abnormal. All excitement, fretting, 
and mental disturbances will be relieved and a 
deep inward quietness will possess the whole 
personality. You will picture and assert quiet- 
ness, health, and victory. 

Pray — mediate — realize — and manifest. 



PRIVILEGE AND SUCCESS 149 

Acute Diseases. 

A peculiar condition of fear usually awakens in 
acute diseases and it has a very depressing effect 
on the minds of friends and on the mind of the 
patient. That fear and its consequences have a 
tendency to interfere with the functions of the 
body is undisputed. More serious results may 
follow than would under other circumstances. 
Bathing in warm water will be helpful in some 
acute conditions and relaxation of the whole body 
will have a tendency to equalize the nerve en- 
ergy and the circulation. Suggesting sleep, 
quietness, and ease, either audibly or silently, 
may produce a comfortable feeling and bring 
some immediate relief. A thorough mental treat- 
ment as in other cases will hasten recovery and 
re-establish the health. Affirm ease, peace, and 
comfort, freedom from every feeling and appear- 
ance of disease, wholeness now and relief at 
once. (Use fear treatment to establish a quiet, 
relieved condition of mind. Separate diseases 
may be treated in the above manner with most 
remarkable results.) 

Realization of Privilege, Inheritance, and Success 
Talk to the patient thus: Get a strong belief 
in the presence of the Universal Spirit with 
whom you are vitally connected. He can pour 
into your whole personality all of his possessions. 
Know that "the Law of the Spirit of Life . . . 



150 HEALING AND HELP 

hath made you free from the law of sin and 
death." The Spirit's working is everywhere and 
in Him is perfect order which is made evident 
to you by right thinking, right speaking, and 
right acting. The opposite condition in you will 
produce disorder, disobedience to the highest law, 
and suffering will follow. Obedience to the Law 
of the Spirit brings one into relation to every 
promise, blessing, and inheritance. Disobedience 
severs such relation and deprives one of his free- 
dom and interferes with a conscious apprecia- 
tion of the things secured by obedience. Your 
inheritance is perfect life, peace, and health with 
freedom and possession of all things necessary. 
"All things are yours." Your privilege is to 
know consciously the Spirit's indwelling and His 
enriching power through the truth and realiza- 
tion of all your inheritance in Christ. You have 
the mind of success and hence the thought, 
words, and deeds of success. "God worketh in 
you." You are encouraged as all things are 
working together for good to you. You are pa- 
tient, thankful, satisfied. Success and prosperity 
will come now in fullness to you. Claim, real- 
ize and manifest them. You are not anxious, but 
you trust Christ fully and you co-operate with 
Him. (This form of treatment can be used for 
adults or children, for success and prosperity, for 
idealization and realization, for contagion and 
fear, and other conditions in which help is 
needed.) 



COLDS AND LA GRIPPE 151 

Colds, La Grippe, and Similar Conditions 

La grippe, colds, etc., are due to a decrease in 
vital activity in the body. The causes of colds 
are worry, anger, fear or mental disturbance, 
over-eating, eating the wrong kind of food or 
wrong combinations ; sluggish circulation due to 
lack of exercise; devitalized blood from lack of 
fresh air, sunshine and earth radiance ; inactive 
skin, caused by heavy clothing or wrong cloth- 
ing, which shuts out electricity and magnetism 
from the sun, air and earth ; over-work, dissipa- 
tion and any condition which lowers vital resist- 
ance. Drugs, serums and other abnormal things 
have a tendency to clog the circulation, interfere 
with and burden the organs of elimination. These 
are some of the causes which produce and aug- 
ment colds, la grippe and similar conditions. 
Slowing down of nerve activity and the circula- 
tion are the primary causes of these conditions. 
As long as these conditions obtain the work of 
the bacteria can be carried on with correspond- 
ing ill effects. The mental power can be aug- 
mented and corresponding vital activity and 
elimination can be increased so that an end may 
occur to the abnormal condition very speedily. 
Bathing, rest, eating sparingly and thorough 
elimination by water drinking and enemas are 
good auxiliaries and should be utilized when first 
symptoms assert themselves. Relieve excessive 
accumulations by increasing the activity of the 



152 HEALING AND HELP 

cleansing organs of the body. Have the patient 
drink freely of hot water, bathe in it and drink 
also plentifully of cold water. If there is fever 
have him stop eating and use fruit juices. When 
the fever is broken and the appetite returns, have 
him eat fruits, raw or steamed vegetables. Have 
him exercise in the open air or in a well venti- 
lated room, breathing deeply and exercising, by 
voluntary contractions and expansion, the ab- 
dominal and chest muscles. 

An assertion that the mind will manifest new 
power and work more strongly through the 
nerves, circulation, and organs of the body, will 
help. When relaxed and quietly breathing deeply 
affirm the consciousness of the Spirit's indwell- 
ing and complete filling of the whole personality 
with strength, health, and life. Say to the pa- 
tient : Your body is the manifestation of life and 
Christ came that you might have more abundant 
life. Perfect life-action is manifesting itself in 
every part of your body. Your mind is pure in 
thought, your body is feeling the power of the 
Spirit's manifestation and the fever is subsiding, 
the organs are doing their work normally, and 
you are free from la grippe and cold. Life ac- 
tion is all powerful in every part of your body. 
You have the mind and consciousness of health 
and express perfect health in thought and in your 
whole body. You will now have a picture of per- 
fect health and you will think the thought and 



FEAR AND SORROW 153 

speak the word. (The treatment can be given 
silently or audibly or both.) 

Fear and Sorrow and Similar States 

There is an intimate relation between these 
characteristics of the human soul. One leads 
easily to the other and all have produced most 
serious consequences in life. They each have 
their particular sphere of manifestation and are 
largely conditioned on the attitude of mind and 
state of the body. A self-poisoned state of the 
latter and wrong thinking of the former will 
produce an abnormal condition of fear and sor- 
row whatever may be their primary causes. An 
excessive, unnerving sorrow is sinful and should 
be conquered ; an inordinate fear should be mas- 
tered and exorcised from the mind. Looking at 
things reasonably will assist in preventing an un- 
due amount of either. Sorrow for the loss of 
loved ones should be tempered by the thought 
that they and ourselves are always in God's pres- 
ence and we cannot be separated in thought, life, 
love, but only in change of place. Resting in the 
Wisdom, Love, and Life of God unites us with 
them and when our eyes are opened as are theirs 
we shall see them. The Omnipresence of God 
and our vital relation to Him takes away sorrow 
and also fear as to those who have passed out of 
our touch for a little time. All life, visible and 
invisible, is one and no power can sever it. The 



154 HEALING AND HELP 

spiritual nature is the Holy of Holies of the hu- 
man personality, and when the Shekinah mani- 
fests His light therein there is "Comfort for sor- 
row and love for fear." "A thread of our life, 
without a break, is ever unwound from His." In 
His life is all truth, peace, love, joy, and comfort. 
Let in the light and darkness will vanish. Let in 
love and hate and fear will pass away. Let in 
comfort and peace and sorrow will cease. You 
are living in Him and your belief in God and in 
Christ, who reveals God, will bring comfort and 
peace and deliverance from fear. Get a picture 
of God's indwelling and see yourself abiding in 
Him and receiving all things from Him. Repeat 
some Scriptures like the following: "Let not 
your heart be troubled neither let it be afraid." 
"Sorrow not as those who have no hope." "Per- 
fect love casteth out fear." 

Pray — meditate — realize and manifest. 

(This treatment can be used silently or aud- 
ibly.) 

Realization of Ideals and the Truth 

Say to the patient : There is one very import- 
ant principle presented in a two-fold form that 
everyone ought to understand. It may be stated 
as follows : Every mental impression strives for 
expression and every mental picture strives for 
realization. This is really one of the most im- 



IDEALIZATION AND REALIZATION 155 

portant laws of psychology. Its far-reaching ap- 
plication no one can understand until he has 
thought and worked it out. The highest ideals 
have a tendency to call into play all of the finer 
forces of the spiritual nature and they lead to the 
most effective realization in the whole personal- 
ity. The essential power of those forces is the 
truth. Hence freedom, love, peace, joy and deep- 
est satisfaction grow out of the operation of the 
truth through these forces. The truth also leads 
to sincerity and purity of heart in which there 
comes a vision of God to the spirit of man. The 
vision transforms, renews, and uplifts. The high- 
est ideal that any man can find in literature, art, 
life and history, is Jesus Christ, the Son of Man, 
and the Son of God. To know the truth and to 
realize it in one's life is to know Him, believe 
into Him, and follow Him. He brings eternal 
life and deepest satisfaction. A picture of Him 
placed where you can see it often and the mental 
picture held as graphically as possible will 
greatly aid one who desires to become like Christ. 
Seeing one's self enwrapped in His love, power, 
peace, and joy, seeing one's self "living, mov- 
ing, and having one's being in God" and allowing 
the truthful manifestation of the Spirit's indwell- 
ing life to show in thought, speech, and act will 
bring a realization of the highest ideals more 
speedily than in any other way. Asserting com- 



156 HEALING AND HELP 

plete freedom from doubt, fear, and blindness 
and the manifestation of wisdom, love, and 
power are very helpful. Claiming the fullness 
of God through Christ and complete victory over 
adverse conditions, and a realization of all that is 
highest and noblest will help you to know God, 
see Him in Christ, and realize Him in the Holy 
Spirit. Say to patient also : 

Pray — meditate — realize and manifest in your 
whole life. 

A Time of Silence and Meditation 

Say to the patient : Take time for this when 
you will probably not be bothered by anyone 
intruding. Go into a quiet room, sit in an easy 
chair, or lie down on a couch or bed. Relax every 
muscle of your body and relax your mind. Have 
a definite subject or object before you upon 
which you will concentrate your attention. Shut 
out other thoughts and in a quiet but definite 
way see the one thing you are to meditate on and 
try to see all sides and especially the truth of the 
subject, and hold yourself to your task until you 
feel that you are master of it. Open your mind 
to the Spirit who can lead you into all truth, and 
let Him make the subject plain, and also make 
plain your duty in regard to it. When you leave 
the room do your duty with all your might. Real- 
ize that you drop worry, care, fear when you go 



CONDITIONS OF THE PATIENT 157 

into the quiet place. It will also be a help to 
make a positive statement either silently or aud- 
ibly or both. This form of statement is a good 
one: "God is here. He is my life. Christ lives 
in me and reveals the Divine Love to me and in 
me. I live and move and have my being in God." 
Make these statements until you become thor- 
oughly conscious of their truth and realize the 
one Supreme Presence filling your whole nature. 
The untold blessings you will not be able to 
enumerate when you come into this realization. 

Pray — meditate- — realize. 

Instruction Concerning Conditions of the Pa- 
tient Under Treatment 

He must relax mentally and physically, holding 
the thoughts : "I am relaxed, quiet, and peaceful." 
"Peace fills my whole being," and mentally in- 
tending and seeing that it does. Having an open 
and receptive mind. Forgetting the ailments and 
thinking of health, peace and strength ; thinking 
all that is good, true, and beautiful; expecting a 
realization of these things in the whole personal- 
ity. Expecting a clearer view of the truth and 
mentally laying hold of the truth will greatly 
help. Being ready to receive is a better attitude 
than mentally reaching out after what the healer 
gives, as that mental state will have a tendency 
to make one anxious and tense. This condition 



158 HEALING AND HELP 

will cause all kinds of thoughts in the mind of 
the patient and interference with the work to be 
done. Holding the thought of complete recov- 
ery, renewal of spiritual power, and a full reali- 
zation of the presence of God will help in the 
work. Having confidence in what is being done 
and obeying directions. Refraining from thinking 
about his ailments and refusing utterly to talk 
about his sickness to his friends. Health is what 
is wanted and the way to get it is to think, talk, 
dream, and mentally picture it to one's self and 
others. This is and ought to be also the healer's 
attitude and will be if he is to succeed in his 
work. If the patient talks the opposite he is un- 
doing all the help the healer is giving, rejecting 
all thoughts of health which he is sending and 
undoing all that the patient can help to do for 
himself. 

Tell the patient to act out health, for that im- 
presses the mental life and strengthens it and 
causes it to think positively of recovery. Be reg- 
ular in taking your treatments. Expect the best 
and co-operate as fully as possible in order to get 
all possible physical health, mental strength, and 
spiritual power. Be thankful for every indication 
of improvement and thank God for it. (Phil. 4:6.) 



MORNING AND NIGHT THOUGHTS 159 
Morning Thoughts Before Rising 

For All 

I am thankful to God for sleep, rest, and 
strength. I awake to righteousness — right think- 
ing, right acting — which I shall carry out today. 
I shall do everything today for the glory of God 
and for good to my fellowmen and myself. I 
shall take pleasure in my work and be happy in 
doing it. "I shall be fervent in spirit, serving 
the Lord." I shall be successful in everything 
that I undertake that is right. God gives me this 
day and my daily bread. He feeds my soul on 
spiritual food and gives strength and desire to 
do His will. I shall think good of all persons and 
try to do good unto all for the Master's sake. 

Night Thoughts After Retiring 

I have had a good day and shall sleep soundly 
tonight. I carry no memory of hatred and I have 
a good feeling for everybody. I have no con- 
demnation hanging over me, because I am in 
Christ Jesus and I confess my sins unto God 
who is faithful and just to forgive my sins and 
He cleanses me from all unrighteousness. I have 
eternal life and that life is in Christ. He lives in 
me and I manifest that life. I have given up 
anxiety and I lay all my burdens down at Jesus' 
feet. "He giveth His beloved sleep" and my rest 
shall be sweet and helpful to my body and mind. 
All in His Name. 



160 HEALING AND HELP 

How to Go Into the Silence 

1. Retire to a quiet room or place daily for 
one-half hour or longer if possible. Get away from 
everybody and everything and alone with God, 
your Heavenly Father. 

2. Take a restful position, relax your body 
and mind, breathe deeply and rapidly for a few 
moments and in the last expulsions of breath 
make them complete. Then breathe in quietly 
and deeply, with the thought held as graphically 
as possible that you are breathing in the Infin- 
ite Spirit. 

3. Shut out daily thoughts and cares, anxi- 
eties and worries. Become perfectly quiet and 
mentally dismiss bodily, mental and moral im- 
perfections and get a picture of yourself as God's 
child and see yourself enwrapped in His pres- 
ence, Love, Wisdom and Power, and these things 
filling your whole personality. 

4. Take one affirmation, or two having in 
them the same thought, and hold in your mind, 
excluding as far as possible all other thoughts, 
and give yourself up to the thought and let it 
grip you. Try to realize its full import and 
power in your life. 

Here are a few more affirmations that may be 
used : 

Thy Eternal Life is my life. 
Thy Infinite Wisdom guides me. 



PRACTICAL RELIGION 161 

Thy Wondrous Intelligence illumines my 
mind. 

Thy Perfect Health is revealed in me and is 
mine. 

Thy Infinite Power upholds me. 

Thy Almighty Strength is my support. 

Thy Unchanging Love surrounds and fills me. 

Thy Eternal Truth has made me free. 

Thy Perfect Peace broods over me and fills my 
life. 

5. Do not tense the muscles of the body 
when thinking, but let your affirmations pulsate 
through your whole personality. Be so relaxed 
that you will have a delightful feeling of rest 
over the whole body. See the Infinite Spirit 
taking complete possession and vibrating 
through you, the Infinite Mind thinking through 
you and Infinite Love filling you until you feel 
a oneness of life, love and mind with God. Re- 
alize that He reaches out through you to help 
others in thought, feeling and action. 

6. Use the same thought and affirmation 
daily until you realize it in the very depths of 
your nature. After that take another until you 
realize fully its meaning and power. The power 
of a suggestion is realized by repetition. The de- 
velopment of your psychical nature, the revela- 
tions received, the unfolding of your spiritual 
life, and the mental comprehension depends on 
concentration and unifying your thought. Put 



162 HEALING AND HELP 

away all idea of discouragement or fear from 
your mind. 

7. Make Christ a living, spiritual power in 
your life. Be specific in this and let Him be 
what He ought to be to you, a real, actual, essen- 
tial and glorious life in you and living through 
you to bless, help, heal and comfort others. 

8. Memorize and repeat the following three 
times after each meditation and affirmation : 

My heart is filled with God's Love, my mind 
is filled with His Wisdom, my spiritual nature is 
filled with His Power and my whole being is 
filled with His Health and Holiness. I put out 
of my mind all thought of discord, discontent, 
wrong desire and disease, and shall cultivate 
the thought and spirit of harmony, happiness, 
health and heaven. 

In order to get the best out of the silent medi- 
tation there ought to be a regular time and place, 
preparation and a thoughtful spirit at the close 
to deepen the impressions. No one can under- 
stand the helpfulness and spiritual, mental and 
physical benefit that can come from these simple 
exercises carried out in this time of silence and 
meditation. 



A WONDERFUL PSALM 163 

TWENTY-THIRD PSALM 

and New Testament Explanation 

Some one has found a beautiful fulfillment of 
the Twenty-third Psalm in the words of Jesus. 
With a little rearrangement it is reproduced 
here. 

"The Lord is my shepherd ; I shall not want." 
"I am the Good Shepherd." 

I shall not want rest: "Pie maketh me to lie 

down in green pastures." 

"Come unto me all ye that labor and are 
heavy laden, and I will give you rest." 

I shall not want drink: "He leadeth me beside 
the still waters." 

"If any man thirst, let him come unto me 

and drink." 

I shall not want forgiveness: "He restoreth my 
soul." 

"The Son of man hath power on earth to 

forgive sins." 

I shall not want guidance: "He leadeth me in 
the paths of righteousness for his name's sake." 

"I am the way, and the truth, and the life." 

"Follow me." 

I shall not want companionship: "Yea, though 
I walk through the valley of the shadow of 
death, I will Fear no evil; for thou art with me." 



164 HEALING AND HELP 

"Lo, I am with you always, even unto the 
end of the world." 

I shall not want comfort: "Thy rod and thy 
staff they comfort me." 

"I will not leave you comfortless. Ye are 

in me, and I in you." 

I shall not want food: "Thou preparest a table 
before me in the presence of mine enemies." 

"I am the bread of life; he that cometh to 

me shall not hunger." 

I shall not want joy: "Thou hast anointed my 
head with oil." 

"That my joy may be in you, and that your 

joy may be filled full." 

I shall not want anything: "My cup runneth 

over." 

"If ye shall ask any thing of the Father in 
my name, He will give it to you." 

I shall not want anything in this life: "Surely 
goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days 
of my life." 

"Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his 
righteousness, and all these things shall be 
added unto you." 

I shall not want anything in eternity: "For I will 
dwell in the house of the Lord forever." 

"Whither I go thou shalt follow * * * 
That where I am, there ye may be also." 



Help and Healing Series 



MANUAL 



OF THE 



League or Class of Healing 
and Helpful Service 

Plans and Purposes of the Organization 

as an Assistant to the Pastor 

and the Church 



Originated and Organized by 

DR. C. F. WINBIGLER 

Author of "Healing and 
Helpful Series of Books;" 
"Suggestion: its Law and 
Application," etc., etc. 



LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 



Copyright 1916 
By Charles F. Winbigler 



INTRODUCTION 

The League or Class for Healing and Helpful 
Service may be an organization or may be made 
a part of an already formed class or organization 
in the Church. The objects for such work, as is 
planned for this League or Class, are very defi- 
nite. The objects are : 

1. To assist the pastor and Church. 

2. To assist Churches in carrying out Christ's 
command to "heal the sick" and to disseminate 
spiritual and scientific principles in order to help 
those in need and those who desire to realize all 
that is highest and best in life. 

3. To help individually by giving healing 
treatments, advice and comfort. 

4. To emphasize the laws of healing found in 
the Scriptures and especially in the New Testa- 
ment, and the utilization of the latest discovered 
principles of psychology, hygiene and optimistic 
philosophy in caring for the body, soul and spirit. 

5. To show how these principles can be used 
to develop and keep in prime condition the phys- 
ical, mental and spiritual life. 



4 MANUAL 

6. To show the unreasonableness of denying 
the testimony of the senses and one's best judg- 
ment. 

7. To develop and make efficient and practical 
helpers in the Church, assisting the pastor by vis- 
iting and helping the sick and infirm, encourag- 
ing the discouraged and hopeless ones, and thus 
make practical the whole gospel of Christ. 

8. To conserve the interests of the Church by 
holding those interested in these healing and 
helpful principles in the church and giving them 
an opportunity to help others and bring them to 
Christ and into the Church. 



HELP AND HEALING LEAGUE 

Officers 

1. President 

2. Vice-President 

3. Secretary 

4. Treasurer 

5. Teacher 

6. Executive and Advisory Committee 

1 _ : 

2 

3 

The Pastor is ex officio overseer and advisor of 
the organization. 

Constitution and By-Laws 

This organization shall be called The League or 
Class of Healing and Helpful Service of the 

Church or organization. 

Every person who is willing to prepare himself 
or herself by study to utilize the principles in the 
books of instruction gotten up for this organiza- 
tion shall be admitted as a member by recommen- 
dation of the pastor and a vote of the League. 



6 MANUAL 

Motto and Duties 

The duties of the members shall be to do all the 
good they can, in all the ways they can, to all the 
people they can, and in all the places they can. 
They will be given certain names of persons that 
they may visit and treat by the principles which 
they have learned from the Scriptures, from the 
books of instruction, from psychotherapeutics, 
and from optimistic philosophy. They shall be 
encouraged to visit any people outside of the 
church or in the church in need of their services, 
advice, and ministry ; doing all they reasonably 
can to lead those unsaved to Christ as a Savior, 
and comforting and helping those in distress who 
are Christians. Their special helpfulness to those 
out of the church shall be to administer help, 
healing, and comfort to them and by teaching and 
invitation lead them to trust in Christ for salva- 
tion. 

They must live exemplary lives and show by 
life and action that they know Christ as Savior 
and Lord. He only can take to others what he 
himself has received. 

Duties of Officers 

Section 1. President. The very best person, 
qualified by knowledge and life, shall be chosen 
for this position and shall preside at the meetings, 
outline the work with the executive and advisory 



DUTIES OF OFFICERS 7 

committee, and become acquainted with and learn 
the qualification of those who are to do active 
work in the League. 

He shall appoint all committees unless other- 
wise provided for ; shall construe all laws of the 
League, decide all questions arising, and perform 
all the customary duties of such an officer. 

Sec. 2. The Vice-President shall perform the 
duties of the President in the latter's absence. 

Sec. 3. The Secretary shall keep a complete 
record of the meetings held, send to any mem- 
ber names of persons to be visited and helped, 
and give information received to the President 
and pastor. 

Sec. 4. The Treasurer shall receive and ac- 
count for all moneys coming into the treasury of 
the League and shall disburse the same by order 
of the President and Secretary. He shall render 
a report to the League every three months. 

Sec. 5. The Teacher shall be as thoroughly 
equipped as possible in Scriptural knowledge 
from the books of instruction, in the principles of 
psychology and psychotherapeutics, and optimis- 
tic philosophy. The teacher ought to be thor- 
oughly good, spiritual and thoughtful, and filled 
with the Holy Spirit. 

Sec. 6. The executive and advisory commit- 



8 MANUAL 

tee shall take the oversight of the work in gen- 
eral, and with the President shall direct the or- 
ganization in such a manner as to accomplish 
the highest results and reach the largest number 
of people. They shall, through the Secretary, 
request those helped by workers to come to the 
prayer meeting and give testimony concerning 
help received and urge them to join the League 
and do what they can to advance the work of 
the same. 

Sec. 7. The officers shall be elected by ballot 
at an annual meeting and shall hold office until 
successors are elected. The executive and ad- 
visory committee shall be appointed by the of- 
ficers with the approval of the pastor. 

The Reason for This Organization 

The needs of a league or class of the character 
named in this manual is almost self-evident. Cer- 
tain cults are taking out of our churches numbers 
of people who would be glad to work in the 
churches if they knew what they could do along 
the line of assisting the church in restoring the 
sick to health, the despondent to joy, the ob- 
sessed to their right mind, and the fearful to a 
condition of peace and quietness. Some of these 
principles have been advocated in magazines and 
papers, in books and lectures, so that many are 



NAME 9 

getting ideas which they feel could be effectually 
used to help those in need. Having no oppor- 
tunity or encouragement to do what they could 
to help others by the use of these principles, or, 
if they try to do so, being immediately accused 
of belonging to certain cults — these people go 
where they feel that they will not be misunder- 
stood and find sympathetic companions believing 
and practicing what they believe. The churches 
ought to hold these people and put them to work, 
thus securing the benefits of the help which they 
can give. The truth which Christ taught covers 
the spiritual and physical needs of mankind. 

Name 

"The League or Class of Healing and Helpful 
Service" is a name that exactly expresses what 
is intended by this new organization. It is in- 
tended to utilize all sane and reasonable prin- 
ciples of truth, to recover the ailing and to bring 
help to all that are in need. 

Principles Used 

The principles of the New Testament and the 
whole Scriptures, psychology, psycho-therapeu- 
tics, optimistic philosophy, and the knowledge in 
the special books of instruction, will be utilized 
and applied by those who are prepared to use 
these principles. 



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Preparation 

Some training will be necessary for those who 
have never made a special study of these prin- 
ciples and in the books of instruction will be 
found many teachings which if practically ap- 
plied will accomplish remarkable results in recov- 
ering those who are sick, fearful, disconsolate, 
disappointed, depressed and helpless, from the 
state and condition which they are in to an op- 
posite and normal condition in which they will 
find joy, happiness and success. There is no rea- 
son why all these agencies referred to shall not 
be utilized in order to bring out of life all the 
finest elements it possesses and bring to those in 
need of physical, mental, and spiritual help the 
very things that make for comfort, strength, 
power and salvation. 

The Church's Work 

The church is not only to lead a soul to sal- 
vation but is to edify and build that soul into a 
spiritual temple. To change the figures, the 
Church is to develop the life of its membership 
so that there shall be a complete unfolding of the 
whole man physically, mentally, and spiritually. 
Hence there is to be definite work which only 
can be performed by utilizing definite principles. 

Time Ripe for This Work 

The time has come for the church to take up 
the matter of specific help for the sick, worried 



CULTS USE SUGGESTION 11 

and fearful, and do the work by the utilization of 
sane and scientific principles and thus stop the 
loss of membership to cults that are practically 
denying the fundamental teachings of Chris- 
tianity. 

Cults Use Suggestion 

Different cults are simply utilizing certain 
forms of suggestion in an effective manner and 
yet they positively deny using it. Any one who 
knows anything about suggestion and its law 
knows that their denial gives those cults the 
falsehood or else brands them with ignorance. 
It makes no difference whence the suggestions 
may come, whether from physical sensation, 
mental causation, or spiritual origination it is 
suggestion. There are antidotes for poisons and 
there are antidotes for things that are wrong. 
Truth is the antidote for error and as we sug- 
gest the truth and use it effectively we conquer 
error and put it down. 

Mortal Mind — Dilemma 

It is utterly senseless to deny error, sin, sick- 
ness, and death. Christ did not deny them and 
why should we? The "mortal mind" is a thing 
these cults conjure with and a mere assumption 
without any reason. If they mean the conscious 
mind then they must act differently in order to 
make such assertions about it or else they must 



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cease following its leadings and cease doing what 
seems to be very reasonable. To be consistent 
they must cease to eat, to wear clothing, to carry 
an umbrella when it rains, stay in the house 
when it is cold, be utterly indifferent to all the 
laws of health. The conscious mind leads to 
reasonable action. These people act reasonably 
but talk very unreasonably. 

Consistency 

If the followers of these cults will say "we 
assume the existence of mortal mind in order to 
have a straw man to knock over and make our 
denials of matter, sin, sickness, and death in order 
to hold up our unreasonable philosophy" then we 
have nothing more to say. 

No Harmony Between Their Teach- 
ings and the Master's 

To claim that these things are in accordance 
with the teachings of Christ and the Bible is to 
claim what is not true and to misrepresent our 
Lord and His word. There is no possibility of 
making their negations to accord with the teach- 
ings of Christ and the Bible, except by perverting 
the Scriptures, misinterpreting them, and giving 
a specialized and unreasonable meaning to them. 
This is done by "Science and Health," and other 
books by these cults. The Bible is a book of life 
and its principles are to be interpreted in a rea- 
sonable, scientific, and simple way so that "the 



SCIENTIFIC AGENCIES 13 

wayfarer" and "he that runs" may read and un- 
derstand them. 

Scientific and Reasonable 
Therapeutic Agencies 

The Scriptures present certain laws and prin- 
ciples which if obeyed and used will secure spir- 
itual, mental, and physical health. Psycho-ther- 
apeutics and mental healing bring to us formu- 
lated laws that may be used in recovering man 
from worries, fears, physical, mental, and spirit- 
ual darkness and disease. Optimistic philosophy, 
based on the utilization of the Law of Sugges- 
tion, will bring most remarkable results to the 
human being that obeys its principles and laws. 

Denial of Senses 

It is not necessary to stultify our conscience, 
dethrone our reason, act contrary to our best 
judgment, and deny our sense life in order to get 
helpful, healthful, and splendid results in our 
lives. We can keep ourselves in a normal condi- 
tion, act consistently with the highest and most 
reasonable philosophy and not deny the most evi- 
dent experiences of our lives. 

Power of Mind 
Over Matter 

Sin. sickness, pain, death, and matter are things 
to be reckoned with in our present environment. 
No legerdemain of words or silence can success- 



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fully deny them. They can, however, be mastered 
and controlled by spiritual and mental forces 
brought into proper relationship to the life of 
man ; their power will become ineffective because 
man's mind will then be superior to them and can 
conquer them. A Christian Scientist said, when I 
made this statement, "Why, that is what we be- 
lieve." I answered, "Why don't you say so?" 
We shall take those things for granted and go to 
work and control them and become master of 
them. 

Real Work of the Church 

The teachings and practice of Christ and His 
apostles concerning healing, optimism, and help 
as well as salvation are plainly given in the New 
Testament. The Church has gotten away from 
those teachings, but she will gradually return to 
them and then she will do the work that the Mas- 
ter gave her to do in its completeness. 

Prevention Better Than Cure 

It is far better by a sysem of education and 
training to prevent nervous breakdowns and ab- 
normal conditions than to permit them to occur 
and then try to cure them. 

Testimonies 

Dr. Robert McDonald says that "healing the 
sick must be made a regular, recognized depart- 
ment of Church work." Dr. Elwood Worcester, 



HEALING WORK OF CHURCH 15 

one of the leaders in the Immanuel Movement, 
says : "The healing work of the Church in the 
early centuries of the Christian era had a most 
powerful influence on Church life and custom and 
was an influential factor in the Christian propa- 
ganda." 

Principles Success- 
fully Tested 

The Emmanuel Church of Boston, and Bishop 
Fallows in his Church in Chicago, and one or two 
Churches in New York and other cities have tried 
out these principles most effectively and have 
proven their efficiency in helping people out of 
their grief, fear, worry, disappointment, selfish- 
ness, sickness, and all kinds of nervous condi- 
tions. 

Nature of Treatment 

Their treatment is very simple but very effect- 
ive. It consists of a plain talk which leads to a 
statement of the causes of disturbance in temper- 
ament, character, and circumstances ; directions 
are given to be followed faithfully according to 
the specific needs ; waking suggestions are re- 
peated over and over again, and the treatment 
ends with prayer and good wishes. At times, by 
these simple exercises, almost miraculous results 
are obtained in the lives of the people who come 
for help. 



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Many Different Cases Helped 

A large variety of cases can be helped : those 
who have given up the battle of life ; the victims 
of overpowering fear and distrust ; the afflicted, 
suffering from religious depression, which threat- 
ens to destroy reason ; those who suffer mentally 
until they are down to the very verge of suicide ; 
the physically ailing, the worried — all receive 
great help from persons who know how to use 
effectually the principles of the New Testament, 
suggestion, and optimism. Neurasthenia, with all 
its attending ills, surmises, fears, and suspicions, 
has been relieved and a normal condition has been 
established. 

Results Obtained 

Self-surrender and self-control can be taught ; 
religion can be made a real and not a theoretical 
matter; the emotions can be controlled; the will 
can be re-enforced and set in operation ; the mind 
can be impressed and directed ; the vital forces 
can be mentally augmented in action ; the phys- 
ical, mental, and spiritual life can be quickened 
by the utilization of the principles referred to in 
the fourfold classification given. These princi- 
ples apply to and work in every department of 
life and why should the Church not use them 
effectively in helping every member and bringing 
the personality and individuality of each into a 
perfect stature and condition in Christ Jesus. 



RELIGION AND SCIENCE 17 

Harmony of Religion 
and Science 

Religion and science are handmaids to help, 
bless, and perfect humanity. The clergyman and 
physician can work together, and trained helpers 
can do most splendid work in the name of the 
Master, thus helping to establish the Kingdom of 
God in the hearts of men and women. 



Remedy for Present-Day 
Nervous Conditions 

Nervous conditions, due to the rapid rate of 
living and the abnormal conditions of life, are de- 
veloping rapidly in this nation, and threaten its 
peace, health, and spiritual life as never before in 
its history. Infectious and contagious diseases 
have been controlled, thus preventing an epi- 
demic manifestation as in the past, and so we 
expect that the nervous conditions arising from 
physical, mental, moral, and spiritual causes can 
be relieved by the positive utilization of the prin- 
ciples of the New Testament, psychotherapy, and 
optimism, etc. The conditions are becoming ap- 
palling and the remedy is at hand to be applied 
for prevention and recovery. It is not in any 
sense another cult, but simply the using of forces 
and methods that are at hand to secure the best 
for mankind in thinking, feeling, and willing, thus 
glorifying God and realizing His will. 



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Main Object of the League 

The great object in the organization of this 
League or class is to fix in the minds of the ail- 
ing ideas of health and holiness. It is to aid in 
right thinking, spiritual discipline, and the estab- 
lishment of right mental and spiritual habits to 
help the church and glorify Christ. 

Powerful Remedial Agencies 

Instruction, testimony, and prayer, will be util- 
ized by the workers to recover the ailing and 
those in distress of mind or body. It is a well- 
known fact that prayer and tactile suggestion 
with oil or without may lead to recovery and 
therefore may be used as a therapeutic agency. 



The books of instruction entitled "How to Help 
and Heal One's Self," and "How to Heal and 
Help Others" are ready for publication and they 
with the large work for advanced students can be 
secured from the author. The title of the advanced 
work is "Suggestion : Its Law and Application ; 
or, The Principle and Practice of Psycho-Thera- 
apeutics." It has 472 pages and covers the whole 
field of psycho-therapeutics and optimistic phil- 
osophy. 



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